BUXOM in a Sentence

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A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUXOM
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buxom
 a.  healthily plump and ample of figure; full-bosomed; vigorous; jolly
Classic Sentence:
1  But, for all her paint and flashy clothes, she was buxom and almost motherly looking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
2  His mother, a buxom young Negro wench who was laundress for the d'Arnaults, concluded that her blind baby was 'not right' in his head, and she was ashamed of him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
3  She was a buxom girl with dark hair and eyes, calm and self-possessed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  "Christian don't know the fun o't, and 'twould be a fine sight for him," said a buxom woman.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Example Sentence:
1  A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness.
2  A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.