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Sentence count:63+1Posted:2017-01-28Updated:2026-04-15
Synonym: brawny, strong, sturdy. Similar words: surly, curl up, curling, churlish, purloined, surliness, early, nearly. Meaning: ['bɜːlɪ]  adj. muscular and heavily built. 
(61) When she edged in he was enacting the kindly burly pastor, an elbow on the corner of the parlor organ, two fingers playing with his massy watch-chain, his expression benevolent and amused.
(62) At harvest time, however, the burly cucurbit weighed more than 100 pounds, Dixon said.
(63) Of course, the problem is, we're distracted by the comings and goings, the hurly burly of the ordinary everyday world.
More similar words: surly, curl up, curling, churlish, purloined, surliness, early, nearly, fairly, properly, formerly, elderly, clearly, not nearly, burn, bury, regularly, similarly, bursa, burnt, burst, suburb, underlying, burrow, bureau, burial, burner, burn up, burn out, burger. 
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