How to Use beefcake in a Sentence

beefcake

noun
  • He's not a great actor but he gets roles anyway because of all the moviegoers interested in beefcake.
  • He's one of Hollywood's most celebrated beefcakes.
  • But the actor has more than a beefcake physique to his credit.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Eight young studs are headed your way, so there will be enough beefcake to go around.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Let the audience have some guilt-free nerd beefcake, man!
    Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
  • If a beefcake off-road aesthetic is more your hang, check out the Boost Gear concepts.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
  • To counter spring break withdrawal, here are five movies that will bring sun and fun (and beefcake and cheesecake) to your screen in these dark times.
    Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
  • So in the Season 9 closer, Pam saw him (beefcake alert!) taking a shower, and the entire season was revealed to be a dream.
    Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
  • How about with hot peppers and a pinch of arsenic mixed in, to be served with country ham, beefcake and cheesecake, with, of course, plenty of moonshine to wash it all down?
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2016
  • Kapler’s bizarre blog posts, his fitness obsession and beefcake photos on the internet are one thing.
    Al Saracevic, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The video, which also stars British electro pop-punk singer Luciana, features a lot of cheesecake, beefcake and even some breakdancing.
    Leslie Richin, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Calling on all 40 year old single moms in #delco Meet me at Craigs Tavern tonight for your Valentine's day #beefcake dinner.
    Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Mann embraces his unofficial moniker as the beefcake artist.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • There is no Sammy Davis Jr. in this scenario because a black man, even playing the part of jester, wouldn’t blend into the color scheme of pure whiteyhood that is the alt-right sagging-beefcake ideal.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Soon after, Peter happens upon that glen and discovers a stash of Henry’s beefcake mags, which Phil kept.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Lots of users want to connect with someone whose avatar is a doe-eyed woman in micro-jorts — or perhaps a hypermasculine beefcake with mandibles that splay out and away from his mouth like bat wings.
    New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • With a boxy shape and beefcake styling, the Atlas provides family-friendly passenger and cargo space without so much as a hint of a mom-mobile image.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 6 July 2017
  • On the positive side, no amount of beefcake doodaddery can mess with the outright practicality baked into the RAV4.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Because climbing is one of the rare elite sports not to favour a specific body type, the routes must be equally challenging to diminutive featherweights and towering beefcakes.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The World Cup is one of the planet’s most reliable beefcake caucuses, and all of us who don’t really love the on-field sport of it should still appreciate that pretty much every team has one dude on the field at all times who is at least a 9 1/2.
    Ted Berg, For The Win, 13 June 2018
  • The sequel accommodates some genial beefcake in the form of Justin Hartley’s firefighter/male stripper, the love interest for Carla.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • While all the beefcake is cooling itself off by eating baked ziti from catering tins, Jennifer is going around telling everyone how Dolores is avoiding her.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The standout of the film is Hemsworth, a gifted comic actor who took years to really reveal the breadth of his talent, because he was originally pigeonholed by Hollywood as a heroic beefcake.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 June 2022
  • The show’s ultimate depiction of Rock Hudson as a dumb-as-a-rock, barely sentient beefcake is one of its strangest choices; its decision to portray Vivien Leigh as a shrill maniac with a demented voice is yet another.
    Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
  • One of the docuseries’ most entertaining sections concerns the heated rivalry between ‘80s beefcakes Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
  • To add subscribers, Cory convinced popular beefcake photographers, such as George Quaintance, to promote the service, according to Johnson.
    Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Willson’s efforts, which included quelling gay rumors about Hudson by having the beefcake star marry the agent’s secretary, Phyllis Gates, are recounted in painstaking detail.
    Gary M. Kramer, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
  • Six local photographers had collaborated with area businessmen for the photos, one for each month, featuring tongue-in-cheek, beefcake poses.
    Steve Smith, Courant Community, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Finland cultivated many photo scrapbooks (his archives) and re-created them as pencil drawings — gay fantasies that became part of the beefcake genre put forth by other photographers, including his friend Robert Mapplethorpe.
    Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Somehow, there are detractors – including Pataky, who tolerated beefcake Thor.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'beefcake.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: