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How to use buxom in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Buxom means having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts. Example: “The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.”

Examples of buxom by meaning

adjectiveHaving a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.

  • Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433
  • Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success.2003 July 23, “Milestones”, in TIME, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2008

adjectiveFull of health, vigour, and good temper.

  • He had not seen Zilla since Paul had shot her, and he still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively, and a little blowsy.1922, Sinclair Lewis, “26”, in Babbitt

More sentences with buxom

  • The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.From the entry screen time
  • While Mario and I were conversing, a bodaciously buxom, long haired, brunette came walking by.2005, Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller. From the entry bodaciously
  • Early offerings--many of them packaged in sultry covers featuring buxom women in silk pajamas--were huge sellers.2000 August 1, Clay Chandler, “A Golden Goose in Red China? Entrepreneur Bets Millions That Foie Gras Will Fatten Export Figures”, in The…. From the entry counterfeiter
  • Their style is shock, horror, probe-tabloid journalism: big, dark headlines, buxom page-three girls and lots of sport.1982 March 13, Lindsay Murdoch, “Shock! Horror! Sydney tabloid war rages”, in Saturday Extra (The Age), page 5, column 1. From the entry page-three girl
  • Their theatrical performances consisted of buxom chorines, weepy soubrettes, vaudeville acts, and a piano-pounding "professor".1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40. From the entry chorine
  • As Caleb says I expect she is buxomer than ever!2010, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Univ of North Carolina Press, →ISBN…. From the entry buxomer
  • No, the buxom greenette is not me.2002 June 4, Cat, “Women's Mini Marathon”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Feb 2026. From the entry greenette
  • One wall, covered with paintings of burly, cigared men and buxom, sun-glassed women, is a rainbow of pastels.1981 May 15, Peggy Meill, “In School With Aidron Duckworth”, in Valley News, volume 28, number 286, page 15. From the entry cigared
  • Many of the mevrouwen were buxom souls whose lightness of foot in dancing never ceased to amaze me.1969, Elliott R[aymond] Thorpe, East Wind, Rain: The Intimate Account of an Intelligence Officer in the Pacific, 1939-49, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry mevrouw
  • Could he have seen, Carrados would have received the impression of a plainly, almost dowdily, dressed young woman of buxom figure.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry dowdily
  • Thus I learned that I was related to Katherine Howard, the boldest and buxomest among us, who had been so cruel to me upon my arrival.2016, Lucy Worsley, Eliza Rose, →ISBN. From the entry buxomest
  • At shopping plazas and stores all over the country this year, children are sitting on the laps of buxom Santas with high voices and rouge on their beards.1979 December 17, F.P., “I saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus”, in The Staunton Leader, volume 132, number 246, Staunton, Va., →OCLC, page 4…. From the entry Ms. Claus

Meaning of buxom

  1. adjective Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
  2. adjective Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
  3. adjective Physically flexible or unresisting.

Full definition of buxom

Questions about buxom in a sentence

How do you use buxom in a sentence?
Buxom is used as an adjective. For example: “The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.”
What is a short sentence with buxom?
“No, the buxom greenette is not me.”
What does buxom mean?
Buxom means having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.

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