Sentence examples for strapping man from inspiring English sources

He is 33 and single: a strapping man.

Still, Mr. Martin, a strapping man with a disarming bluntness, seemed dazed by it all.

One afternoon, a strapping man positioned himself as though to actually block my way.

To get into character, Mr. Hounsou, the epitome of a healthy, strapping man, dropped nearly 30 pounds.

A strapping man with black braids that dangle to his waist, Means remains a charismatic figure on the reservation.

The sight of a grown, strapping man hunched and muttering over a glitch in his pink lanyard makes me inexplicably giddy.

The MONA Roma ferry, painted in military-chic camouflage and staffed by strapping men in tight-fitting grey jumpsuits, feels like an appropriate form of transport for reaching David Walsh's dramatic art museum, jutting out of the sandstone cliffs like a Blofeldian lair.

Lymm, Cheshire 01925 752 068; thechurchgreen.co.uk When chef Aiden Byrne departed the Dorchester Grill, leaving behind the campest dining room in London – the murals of strapping men in kilts tossing their cabers, and the tartan upholstered chairs redefined the term Gay Gordons – it was assumed he would open a fine dining restaurant.

Marlborough, Repton (where the former archbishop Geoffrey Fisher was a headmaster), Rugby (home of the "Christian gentleman" and Harry Flashman) – all these ghastly Victorian foundations produce strapping men who'd make first-rate leaders of cannon fodder in the trenches, but in later life they treat their own feelings with brutal disdain, much as they'd handle servants demanding a wage rise.

Initial reactions are that it's huge and clunky, though that won't be as much of a problem for you big strapping men as it is for me.

Tom of Finland's images exist in a world of their own making, one populated by impossibly strapping men always eager to indulge their many devilish same-sex desires.