6 sentences with 'burly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word burly and other words derived from it.
• « A burly man with bulging eyes and a shaved head advanced heavily toward me, swinging his arms, and with a nervous chuckle squeezed my arm. »
• « -You're going to be just fine," the burly Dr. Murray Canter, an anesthesiologist specializing in neurology, assured him in his powerful voice. »
• « Suddenly Marcus let go of the ladder and fell backwards, with the burly woman sitting on top of him. »
• « I had had a dream that death was with me, in bed, and it was a man; a strong, burly man. Shrinking down, not facing him, I could feel the hair on his chest, the stubble on his beard. I could smell his breath. And I knew that death held me in his arms. »
• « At that moment, tall, burly purser Simon Rogers, who at 29 was the youngest of the crew, had already come forward from the galley behind to join Ogden and Heward. Huddled in that cramped space in the cockpit, the three men again tried to free the captain trapped in the window, but to no avail. »