How to Use corpulent in a Sentence

corpulent

adjective
  • There are men who prefer very small breasts, men who prefer corpulent women, and so forth.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2011
  • Grayson Perry’s show last year was corpulent, even gluttonous.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 July 2019
  • Others have been overlooked, like the disabled body, the aging body, or the corpulent body.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The Portuguese known their way around a suckling pig, among other meats, so these corpulent reds are up to the task.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • All of them follow this corpulent detective, Nero, who lives in a town house with his butler, Fritz.
    — The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Bolton notes that in art, the corpulent body has almost entirely been used as a fertility symbol.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Many of his pictures were of corpulent figures poised between caricature and pathos.
    — Stephen Kinzer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But as the public elects the most corpulent contender, some will take more than just bulk into consideration.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The more corpulent criminal began firing away, launching the three customers toward the ground or hiding places.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 31 May 2017
  • Their former owner must have been a tall, corpulent man; otherwise there was no explaining the difference between the wearer and the worn.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Despite the doping, the drugs, the slow slide into corpulent decadence, some supernatural aura still clings to our image of him.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Congress may again be forced to bundle many (but not all) of the spending bills together into another corpulent package, funding the government.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 25 June 2018
  • The most remarkable yaksha here is a magnificent, free-standing sculpture, his corpulent belly overhanging his knotted waist sash.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Snug bucket seats challenge corpulent occupants, but look fantastic, as does the expanse of quilted leather that covers the parcel shelf behind the driver and passenger.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But Beijing’s intent is merely to protect its own citizens, meaning the gangs are shifting their focus towards the corpulent West instead.
    — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
  • His address to a suffragists' convention had bombed, perhaps because the corpulent leader had insulted his female audience.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The corpulent body, unfettered Garments on display here include the corsetry of designer Michaela Stark, who posed herself for three of the new mannequins.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • Just compare the plastic-y new Jabba to Return of the Jedi’s magnificently corpulent puppet.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • That outrageous spectacle is instantly topped by a kinky scene in what could be Fatty Arbuckle’s bedroom, as a corpulent silent comic giddily awaits his golden shower.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The famously corpulent despot looked noticeably slimmer in photos released by state media Saturday — after not being seen publicly for a month, the Guardian reported.
    — Fox News, 10 June 2021
  • The idea of these new mannequins, which will accompany the more traditional ones, is to stress that in the history of art, certain body types have been ignored or excluded — the corpulent body, the disabled body or the aging body, for example.
    — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The idea of these new mannequins, which will accompany the more traditional ones, is to stress that in the history of art, certain body types have been ignored or excluded — the corpulent body, the disabled body or the aging body, for example.
    — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In practice, increasingly corpulent Italians — and especially Italian children — are united by an insatiable hunger for snack food.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Austin Butler has been scoring raves for his chameleonic turn as Elvis Presley, charting his life and career from his early days as a gyrating heart throb through his corpulent coda as a Vegas regular.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 June 2022
  • On the other side, the Reverend Al Sharpton, a corpulent, demagogic presence, took up the victims’ cause, and was seen by some as a radical, and by almost everyone as an opportunist.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Nearly 40% of Mississippians struggle with obesity, but the state’s occupational licensing regime is truly corpulent.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2020
  • The Horatio Alger myth, a formulaic saga that impoverished youths fortuitously assisting prosperous corpulent strangers needing help will be rewarded with a life of prosperity is a fiction.
    — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • After the Sheba sequence, the djinn spends 1,500 years in a brass vase, reemerging in the Istanbul of the early Ottoman Empire, where the second in line to be sultan spends his adulthood locked in a harem with corpulent concubines.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 May 2022

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