Burly in a sentence as an adjective

" not "why didn't you call for big burly men to stuff her in a box?

One of those burly OtterBox cases would nullify that risk pretty completely, I think.

It used to involve burly men in white clothes; they're not used to thinking about where their information is traveling.

I was stopped, and escorted into a room by a couple of burly officers with automatic pistols on their hips.

Perhaps the Fog Creek staff is just really fit, but it seems like it would have made sense to hire some burly mover dudes to haul gasoline up stairs.

It's like some comedy sketch where some big burly sketchy guy comes over and "threatens" to push your pencils off your desk and drop your papers on the floor.

They seem flimsy because they are flimsy, and they are flimsy because well crafted, long lasting shoes are big and burly with lots of material and stitching.

"Part of Facebooks appeal in those first days was that it was clean, protected space very different from the all-too-public hurly-burly of MySpace [10].

It doesn't specify the means of possession, like a hundred thousand little pockets on the inside of his jacket, a burly aluminum case handcuffed to his wrist, or a peddler's cart.

Totally anecdotal, but I was once pulled aside on the jetway by a woman with a Treasury badge and a burly guy who was probably a sheriff though he never said anything.

I doubt the place I'm thinking of is still in the basement of SLS, since that was more than a decade ago, but they advertised "Pakistani-Afghanistan" food and the big burly guy who punched the naan then threw it directly into the tandoor.

Expecting men to adhere to the "burly, hairy bread-winner" stereotype is misandristic in the same way that expecting women to "stay in the kitchen" is misogynistic, and those expectations often correlate.

Its when some drunk guy falls over when the train accelerates, assumes he was pushed, and starts screaming at the woman who was behind him and telling her that he's going to put a bullet in her head that makes me think I might be reluctant to use public transportation if I wasn't a relatively burly guy.

Burly definitions

adjective

muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term"

See also: beefy husky strapping buirdly