broad-beamed

Performing in a subtly padded costume that makes her look much more broad-beamed than she is in real life, she plays the part of Josie Hogan with a force and authority worthy of the way that Mr. O'Neill describes the character in the play's stage directions: She is so oversize for a woman that she is almost a freak....

O'Neill Staged on an Intimate Scale Terry Teachout 2011

At 14th Street, a sundeck with a dozen or so broad-beamed wood chaises angled toward the sunset opens to unobstructed views of the river.

All Aboard the High Line Julie V. Iovine 2009

Hope, Rossi's amiable broad-beamed wife, had smiled regardless, but Frances had been embarrassed and had punched Bari's arm to try and keep him quiet.

Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

The pastor, a broad-beamed man with salt-and-pepper hair and a big jeweled cross of gold hanging around his neck, looked peeved but hopeful.

Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench 2004

The pastor, a broad-beamed man with salt-and-pepper hair and a big jeweled cross of gold hanging around his neck, looked peeved but hopeful.

Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench 2004

You would need some sort of fierce determination to set forth in a puny, broad-beamed, high-pooped, painfully slow, nearly undefended 17th-century ship to cross the uncharted ocean to an unknown, unmapped new world.

An American Buddhist Response to Americanism... Mumon 2005

Anne dropped the cloak she had removed but had been holding on to the chair nearest her and advanced over the broad-beamed, shining floor toward FitzRoy.

This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

As she came into the small business-section she inspected a broad-beamed grocer in an alpaca coat who was bending over the apples and celery on a slanted platform in front of his store.

Main Street 2004

Six tall, broad-beamed giants steaming in two columns.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

As Daphne bent over to fetch a rubber Batman from in front of the TV set, her broad-beamed bottom pushed her beltless, electric blue stretch pants to the limit.

Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001