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180 example sentences for STOUT, such as:

1. He put up a stout defence in court.
2. He cut a stout stick to help him walk.
3. Mrs Blower was the rather stout lady with the glasses and the sensible shoes.
4. After him the stout Nesvitski came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his weight.
5. The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian.

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 Meanings and Examples of STOUT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stout
 a.  dependable; stocky; euphemisms for fat
Classic Sentence: (174 in 12 pages)
1  Ascending the narrow wooden staircase to the upper floor, and arriving upon a broad landing, Chichikov found himself confronted with a creaking door and a stout old woman in a striped print gown.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Yet when Chichikov reached the verandah of the house he found, to his intense surprise, the stout gentleman waiting to welcome the visitor.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
3  Father Alexey, a good-looking stout man with thick, carefully-combed hair, with an embroidered girdle round his lilac silk cassock, appeared to be a man of much tact and adaptability.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
5  This stout young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, a well-known grandee of Catherine's time who now lay dying in Moscow.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
6  A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
7  Tall and stout, holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if rolling them up.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
8  The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
9  All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna Mikhaylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, hanging his head, meekly followed her.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII
10  Again Pierre fell into the naively symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing his utmost to look as small as possible.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
11  The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
12  Beside him was his comrade Nesvitski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
13  After him the stout Nesvitski came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his weight.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
14  The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout staff officer, and at Zherkov, and he frowned.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
15  His whole time was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince Vasili's house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and his beautiful daughter Helene.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  He cut a stout stick to help him walk.
2  He put up a stout defence in court.
3  Mrs Blower was the rather stout lady with the glasses and the sensible shoes.
4  John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old, large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage.
5  When we got to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquainted with -- which was the north side -- we found a square window-hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it.
6  The bilious is indicated by a thin, spare face, dark skin, black hair, firm flesh, moderate stoutness, with rough, harsh, and strongly marked features.