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Examples of brawny
brawny
The leek sighs, stretches out and leans into those brawny whole-wheat shoulders.
From the orlandosentinel.com
To be fair, most of those diesels were still brawny pickups, vans, and big SUVs.
From the businessweek.com
The prime example of that was the par-5 18th, which measured a brawny 639 yards.
From the denverpost.com
Kapler is a big, brawny man, not so overbuilt he tightened up like Ruben Sierra.
From the usatoday.com
In other words, give me a brawny prime or choice steak anyday, at half the price.
From the toledoblade.com
He is brawny and bouncy, tough to guard and one of the game's underrated talents.
From the denverpost.com
No doubt calloused hands with brawny arms once swung the scythe back on the farm.
From the orlandosentinel.com
No British reserve in Walton's Crown Imperial here, just brawny Midwestern punch.
From the npr.org
Men want brawny and flashy cars, while women want imports and smaller vehicles.
From the forbes.com
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"
- Characterized by brawn; muscular; strong; Calloused; hardened
- A hefty, muscular, full-bodied wine with plenty of weight and flavor, although not always the most elegant or refined sort of wine.
- Term used mainly to describe young red wines with high alcohol and tannin levels. Certain red wines from Amador County, California, can be examples. The mild epithet "tooth-stainers" is sometimes applied to this style of wine, denoting respect for strength.
- Used to describe wines that are hard, intense, tannic and that have raw, woody flavors. The opposite of elegant.
- Taste descriptor for hefty, Herculean red wines usually young and full-bodied. The strength of brawny reds does not equate eloquence.
