How to Use burly in a Sentence

burly

adjective

• That combined with the hard water creates a burly style of sake.
  — Jenn Harrisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• The burly Fenix 5 is on our list of best fitness trackers.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 July 2019
• Ayton needs a burly opponent to go against to learn to play with his back to the basket.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 3 July 2019
• Button is a burly, bearded man who loves kayaking the river with his wife and fishing its waters with his 14-year-old son.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 1 July 2019
• Meanwhile, Ingles and Bogdanovic are switchable forwards with burly bodies who can shoot in their own right.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 3 July 2019
• Boogie is an incredibly fun player, a burly center who wants to play like James Harden.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Ian Stewart — burly and bearded, the very model of a preservationist/woodworker — was waiting for me.
  — Russell Shorto, New York Times, 17 June 2019
• If Leone indeed shifts to center, the right-guard slot will likely be filled by Christian Haynes, a burly 300-pounder who has drawn praise from coaches.
  — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• The result is a late entry in an aging franchise that feels fresh and new, especially with Henry Cavill as a burly, mustachioed villain.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2019
• The burly first baseman is having the kind of season the Mets haven’t seen from a rookie since Darryl Strawberry in 1983.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
• The Alex rims are wide and burly, and both wheels seem to be built well.
  — James Huang, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• Wolf, a smidgen over 5 feet tall, was dwarfed by the burly man.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
• At their foot was a tall, burly guard dressed in all black.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• The five-speed shifter has long throws, the clutch is heavy, and the engine revs with a burly roar.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
• Jones was a burly 6-3 with a thick mustache and a hard stare.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021
• The smaller cousins of the burly raven are moving north.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2019
• Of those, the S20 Ultra boasts the burliest camera in the bunch.
  — Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2020
• By the early morning of March 16, the burly 77-year-old was gone.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2020
• The burly man Corlys is talking to, Alyn, is the one who saved his life, pulling him from the sea.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• All the exits were blocked by burly bouncers and the doors were barred.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The truck is straining its burly shoulders against the wind.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 29 May 2020
• This burly mat is a full 4 inches thick and weighs 4 pounds.
  — WIRED, 18 June 2023
• The burly Faith Baptist boys proved too much, and the second half was a blow-out.
  — Nick Watt and Jack Hannah, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• Guardians of the Galaxy was the big hit of 2014, making a star out of blond, goofy, burly Chris Pratt.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2024
• The young, burly bartender with a baby face rushed over.
  — Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2022
• Still, the burly 6-foot-6-inch forward is most proud of his defense.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• Until the burly men at the ice house loaded two big bags of ice into the back.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• That moment capped the group’s two-year effort to climb the burly mountain.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• The burly man recoiled, then shot back that only a court could judge him.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Richard was rather like Philip in appearance—tall and burly and sandy.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022

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