Meaning of well-built | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Constructed in a pleasing or sound manner.
2. Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete.

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Examples

“The basics of a well-built garden”

“It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).”

“James Lassiter was forty years old, a well-built, ruggedly handsome man in the prime of his life, in the best of health.”

“A well-built teenage boy in a soiled black leather studded vest and black jeans was crouched in the far corner of the cellar, waiting for us.”

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