How to Use portly in a Sentence

portly

adjective

• But the real star of that 278-bulb light show is the proud, portly chef on top.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• That kind of rapid transit is possible even though the LC 500 is a bit on the portly side.
  — Al Haas, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• One of them is the leader’s portly kid brother, the other a sullen cop killer who joined them on the breakout.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• The portly 36-year-old is a heavy smoker with a penchant for excess.
  — David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• Vicious rumors at the time of her death had the portly singer dying from choking on a ham sandwich.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• To one awestruck 16-year-old private, the tall, portly baron in the long blue cloak was as intimidating as the Roman god of war.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• To one awestruck 16-year-old private, the tall, portly baron in the long blue cloak was as intimidating as the Roman god of war.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• Others said the portly 72-year-old would shout obscenities in his front yard when some chore went awry.
  — Tony Bizjak, Anita Chabria, Dale Kasler, Nashelly Chavez and Diana Lambert, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
• Gone are the days when the portly guy who can fix a carburetor is quick or fit enough to carry a tire or operate a jack.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2017
• Punim, a kitty rather on the portly side, kept popping her outfit’s Velcro.
  — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The master of this art is the eider duck, a portly sea duck that is widespread in the Arctic and feeds by diving for mussels in frigid polar water.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• But when a volunteer gently tipped the carrier, the portly beaver waddled out and glided into the pond.
  — Lisa P. White, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2017
• Fashion: White jeans and driving moccasins abounded, along with a surfeit of portly men in long Bermuda shorts.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 17 July 2013
• The Ring surveillance footage shows the portly mammals on the hood of a black-and-white police vehicle outside a home just after 3 a.m. Wednesday.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• The formerly portly lawmaker has lost about 70 pounds over the past year while honing his critique of the incumbent.
  — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2017
• Spicer's constant smile was back on full-grit for the dance and the show's portly engine-that-could pulled off some effective moves that resembled ballroom dancing.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2019
• While the shelves of Estonian markets were empty, Finnish TV carried ads of a portly chef prodding succulent cuts of veal and lamb.
  — Jessica Loudis, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017
• Yet Haley was a portly middle-aged man, as audiences discovered when the union bans were finally lifted and the Comets toured Britain.
  — Tony Fletcher, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• The portly Cubs skipper uttered one of the great lines in managerial history after quitting with six games left in 1979.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• Manatees gotta eat No animals gobble up more of that money than the zoo's four portly manatees.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2019
• Vasquez, the portly man whose cries of exaltation at a double rainbow turned him into a viral star, died at 57 on Saturday.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 May 2020
• The Chinese ruler has been likened to the cartoon bear in the past, with critics of Xi mocking him for having similar physical characteristics to the portly bear.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
• Kim, a portly man in his mid-40s, died shortly after the attack, en route to a hospital after suffering a seizure, Malaysian officials say.
  — Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2017
• Vignon clearly relishes being at the center of the storm, with reporters now beating a path to the Vercors plateau in southeastern France where the portly priest ministers.
  — John Leicester, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• For Thompson, a portly silver-haired Vietnam vet with eyebrows like bits of black felt, this polar bear encounter is routine business; the only thing ruffled is the wolf trim of his drab army parka.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• For Thompson, a portly silver-haired Vietnam vet with eyebrows like bits of black felt, this polar bear encounter is routine business; the only thing ruffled is the wolf trim of his drab army parka.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• Toss in his portly stature and Hoskins was a perfect choice for the heroic plumber Mario, the avenging angel who stomps through worlds of evil turtles and living mushrooms, even if the actor was neither Italian nor American.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 May 2018
• The portly pony car handles far better than its ancient predecessors, posting 0.93 g on our skidpad.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2017
• In January, 2003, in the body of a portly seafood merchant suffering a respiratory crisis, the virus reached a Guangzhou hospital.
  — David Quammen, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• The island’s donkeys buckle under the burden of portly visitors.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024