How to Use heavyset in a Sentence

heavyset

adjective
  • Raveesh’s body, heavyset and disheveled, on the floor near the kitchen.
    — Katie Worth, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2018
  • One of the suspects is described as a heavyset male with a long, red beard.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
  • His neighbor, a heavyset white guy with a buzz cut, had just pulled up in his pickup truck.
    — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Chaudhary, a heavyset man with a thin mustache, heads to the back of his home to fetch a bag.
    — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The man is described as dark-skinned in his 30s, heavyset with short black curly hair.
    — Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Online, people cracked jokes about the sight of the heavyset Christie in a beach chair.
    — Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
  • One is heavyset with a ponytail, and the other had a thin build and wore a black head scarf, police said.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 27 June 2017
  • Zerai, a heavyset man in a white soutane, a crucifix hanging from his neck, laughs at this new twist of fate.
    — Peter Ford, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2017
  • In those incidents, one of the robbers was described as black and heavyset.
    — Marie Fazio, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Police said they were told the attacker was a heavyset dark-skinned man with a neon vest and a gray sweatshirt.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The other man was described as tan, dark-skinned, 6 feet tall and heavyset with shoulder-length hair.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Video footage revealed that the suspect was a heavyset white female in her 30s.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 13 July 2024
  • Public appearances show Shafer to be taller and more heavyset than that, and with gray hair and brown eyes.
    — Amy Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • One, just over five feet tall and heavyset, was struggling to run fast, Malkit Singh said.
    — Evan Hill, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • One suspect was described as a heavyset man, about 6-feet tall with a light complexion.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The man who attacked the 32-year-old with a knife was said to be heavyset and wearing a blue, black and white jacket.
    — Mariah Rush, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • One is a Hispanic man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and heavyset.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Yasser’s uncle was a big, heavyset man with a jowly face and a look of weary resignation in his eyes.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • He’s described as Hispanic and heavyset in his late teens or 20s.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
  • Pam was originally [written as] a heavyset girl, so all the jokes on my audition were fat jokes.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The suspect was described as Latino, in his 20s, tall and heavyset.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
  • Fortune described the man who took the baby and truck as about 35 years old, heavyset, bald and wearing a white shirt.
    — Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2021
  • Hisham sat back in his seat, heavyset but sleek, smoking his cigar reflectively and watching the two young people.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • On the 53rdfloor, Mayblum came across a heavyset man named Victor, who couldn’t move.
    — Randall Lane, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The third suspect is believed to be a heavyset white or Hispanic female in her 40s.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee, 28 June 2018
  • The driver was described as a dark-skinned, heavyset black male with dreadlocks while the shooter was described as a dark-skinned, slim black male with dreadlocks.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Food is only available for those who can afford to make a trip to the store, said Abu Ali, a heavyset bearded man wrapped up against the cold.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The man told police that the suspect was a heavyset man in his 20s with a beard who drove a gray Nissan Sentra.
    — cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
  • In the photos, the heavyset suspect with short dark hair is wearing a thick chain necklace, jeans, a dark hoodie and dark-colored T-shirt.
    — Jocelyn Gecker, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2018
  • At that very time, a 17-year-old boy on a school field trip in Chinatown noticed a heavyset man sitting on a bench — just sitting.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022

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