Professor Gates liked to describe himself as big-boned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Set in Darkness]

He was a man of enormous build, big-boned and muscular.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference

Pretty soon big bird is going to be like big-boned bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2005] Reference

They were both large men, big-boned and broad-shouldered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference

She remained tall and big-boned and wide around the waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Fashion Week champions curves in a catwalk revolution] Reference

You were real; those big-boned hands and feet persuade me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

With his big-boned hands and feet, he would be taller yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

He did pretty well for such a big-boned, large-footed man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Season 6 Premieres: Matlin and Yamaguchi Shine] Reference

What, with all these big-boned Betties walking around here!.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2008] Reference

His wife Annette, a big-boned girl, worked as my bartender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Nights] Reference

Judd's big-boned, awkward frame was pointed out with high glee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Line] Reference

In between, the three graces, also big-boned, do a stately dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sculptures add color to New York Avenue, but are they art?] Reference

A clergyman entered, a big-boned, thin, ugly man of nervous manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference

Only one man was present, the big-boned fellow known as Number Four.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective] Reference

"I'm big-boned," Austin amended, primly stepping off onto the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lines]

He was big-boned and graceful like the vesta, his deep eyes still shy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harpist in the Wind]

In Ithaca was a beggar named Irus, gluttonous and big-boned but a coward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

I became aware of a youngish veteran, tough and big-boned, growling at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

The tall and big-boned Gatrune was waiting on the wide stone steps for Anna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darksong Rising]

Don't reflexively blame your thyroid or the fact that you're just "big-boned.".    From Wordnik.com.  [I Was a Male Weight Watcher] Reference

She had a face like Sayid's, smooth and big-boned, with sparkling, laughing eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams From My Father]

They moved into the shadowy corridor, tall big-boned Macedonian and slender Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

The Black Mare, Joanna thought, looking at that broad-shouldered, big-boned figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

I wondered how I would be able to get him to his feet, for he was tall and big-boned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Restoree]

A tall woman stood in it, big-boned and hearty as many of the Three Ships settlers were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Destiny]

He was a tall, big-boned man, with strongly marked features, who looked about fifty years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Old Lady]

Tamatoa, of course, had developed into a classical island warrior, rugged, big-boned and grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

The pilot, a big-boned Britisher who had two jobs to do at once, watched the airspeed indicator.    From Wordnik.com.  [What The Left Hand Was Doing] Reference

Both wore still-dusty riding clothes, but the big-boned blond lord held a floppy cap in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soprano Sorceress]

Behind the youth plodded two heavy-headed, limp-eared sumpter-mules, driven by a big-boned black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Caerman himself, a big-boned man who moved easily and energetically, stepped forward to meet them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Wheel]

Marya stood up and smoothed her old dress over the big-boned frame all of her husbands had admired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hex] Reference

Up close, Myron could see that Arthur Bradford was big-boned and rough-hewn and large-featured and red-faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [One False Move]

But with Marda waiting in-side, dark and big-boned and just beginning to show her pregnancy, it felt like homecoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [World of Ptavvs]

Their tethered horses grazed not far away -- big-boned animals, not so ponderous as those raised by the Britons, but swifter.    From Wordnik.com.  [People of the Dark]

He was a big-boned man, his hair was cropped to the skull and his complexion was like something the dog had been playing with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]