How to use "portly" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "portly" in popular movie and book plots

  • At the same time, rich middle-aged portly landownerT.  - Claudelle Inglish
  • He turns around to see a portly gentleman sitting down.  - A Game of Pool (1989 The Twilight Zone)
  • Hudson (Jean Hersholt), a portly real estate tycoon, who falls for her when she contrives to meet him.  - The Battle of the Sexes (1928 film)
  • The cat finally realizes the portly parrot is a better meal; he is later shown sitting on the parrot's perch, imitating his mannerisms.  - Catch as Cats Can
  • Nicholas finds employment as a clerk with the benevolent Cheerybles, portly twin brothers whose nephew Frank begins to court Kate.  - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 film)
  • At the club, the shy, portly Tun meets a young woman, Nok, shares a duet with her, and ends up taking her back to his house.  - Sai Lor Fah
  • He undertakes a dramatic, bizarre and insane appearance; wearing furry dice, smoking Havana cigars and tattooing a target on his portly belly.  - Loaded (video game)
  • Gruber, a slightly portly card-player and cigar horder.  - McHale's Navy (1997 film)
  • Jimmy then directs him to the Fence, a portly British man in Deck B's restaurant.  - The Ship (video game)
  • Although horrified to discover that her prospective husband is the portly Tony, she decides to go through with the marriage.  - They Knew What They Wanted (film)
  • She is then hit by a car driven by Divine, a portly blonde who was trying to pick up an attractive hitchhiker whom she imagines naked.  - Mondo Trasho

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