broad in the beam

"She is longer and broader in the beam than ours."

"I guess I am getting a little broader in the beam."

She's not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam?"

"A small fishing boat, sixty feet and broad in the beam.

She's a motherly, reassuringly large lady, broad in the beam and solid.

She was a small fishing boat, fifty or sixty feet long and broad in the beam, with an inboard motor.

These vessels were designed for the purpose and were very large, far broader in the beam than war galleys.

Rather broad in the beam, and looking a little like a butler with a moustache, but--stupid?

She was heavy-breasted, broader in the beam.

'Yes, Jerry, but you are, to put it politely, rather broad in the beam.'

"She has a rowing bench inside her gown," said Olga "Broad in the beam!"

"She's a fine figure of a woman that, though maybe a bit broader in the beam than you'd expect of a countess, symbolically speaking.

That little ditty, "The Queen of Dularn is broad in the beam!"

But logic - suggesting a relation to "broad in the beam" - isn't always the best guide in slang etymology.

"Broad in the beam!"

Spray was eighty feet long, with two masts, and broad in the beam, with room for deck cargo as well as in the holds.

A benevelont aunt gave me a Mary McFadden couture dress in an 8, and it is broad in the beam.

It was an ordinary cargo vessel, broad in the beam and bluff at both bow and stern, with two broad sails to help it downstream.

Like its smaller sisters, it was much longer than it was broad in the beam, and was designed for no other purpose than war on the sea.

Broad in the beam, she is Tony's pride and joy, a buxom 21ft ex Trinity House ship's lifeboat converted for two-hour wildlife cruises.

She and Winifred and Imogen would take up room--all rather broad in the beam; but there were still gaps up there.

It was a bright little vessel, broad in the beam; just below the top of its single mast, there was a wooden basket in which a lookout could stand.

She was a roomy vessel, very broad in the beam, with a graceful curve in her bows, and masts which were taller than any that I had seen on such a boat on the Solent.

The Archer was a big ship by Starkadian measure, perhaps five hundred tons, broad in the beam, high in the stern, a carven post at the prow as emblem of her tutelary spirit.

Interestingly, shorts that are cut full and end a couple of inches above the knee look neat and nice on everyone - if you accept that they make all but the thinnest and trimmest appear broad in the beam.