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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sturdy figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone with a strong, solid, or well-built physique, often in a positive context. Example: "The athlete stood tall, a sturdy figure that commanded respect on the field."
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Asked how he was coping, he pointed to his shirt, clinging to his sturdy figure.
Certainly Lakshmi Shankar was one: a small woman with a sturdy figure, shoulder-length wavy hair and a face gently kneaded by age.
The woman, small and neat and lively, with a slight but sturdy figure and a squawking but not unattractive voice, was about his age, a few years older than me.
Ms McCarthy was the brassy, foul-mouthed breakout star of "Bridesmaids" (2011), but while that film's success assured her a future in Hollywood, her sturdy figure suggested that it would be a future filled with supporting roles as the clownish confidante.
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Christian Bale is persuasively melancholy but less gloomily brooding than Michael Keaton, a sturdier figure than George Clooney and Val Kilmer, and more likable than any of them.
The photographs revealed an attractive woman with a sturdy hourglass figure, imposing dense brows, and very dark eyes.
One remembers a sturdy, trousered figure, bright blue eyes, effective and observant, the clipped voice quickening at an ungenerous remark or deference to some fashionable fraud.
But when I pulled up to his remote A-frame cabin near Puget Sound last winter, there he was, a sturdy, tall figure in a Black Flag sweatshirt holding a glass of red wine.
In "Look at Me, Look at U," the players embroider a sturdy bass figure with separate saxophone and flute lines.
A week later a toilet was added to the protest staging area, then a sturdy cardboard figure of a man wearing a red shirt, blue jeans, and a straw hat.
A surprisingly sturdy Ophelia-figure materializes, complete with the child Felix unknowingly sired ages ago.
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