How to Use beefcake in a Sentence

beefcake

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  • He's not a great actor but he gets roles anyway because of all the moviegoers interested in beefcake.
  • He's one of Hollywood's most celebrated beefcakes.
  • But the actor has more than a beefcake physique to his credit.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Eight young studs are headed your way, so there will be enough beefcake to go around.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Let the audience have some guilt-free nerd beefcake, man!
    — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
  • If a beefcake off-road aesthetic is more your hang, check out the Boost Gear concepts.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
  • To counter spring break withdrawal, here are five movies that will bring sun and fun (and beefcake and cheesecake) to your screen in these dark times.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
  • So in the Season 9 closer, Pam saw him (beefcake alert!) taking a shower, and the entire season was revealed to be a dream.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
  • How about with hot peppers and a pinch of arsenic mixed in, to be served with country ham, beefcake and cheesecake, with, of course, plenty of moonshine to wash it all down?
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2016
  • Kapler’s bizarre blog posts, his fitness obsession and beefcake photos on the internet are one thing.
    — Al Saracevic, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The video, which also stars British electro pop-punk singer Luciana, features a lot of cheesecake, beefcake and even some breakdancing.
    — Leslie Richin, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Calling on all 40 year old single moms in #delco Meet me at Craigs Tavern tonight for your Valentine's day #beefcake dinner.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Mann embraces his unofficial moniker as the beefcake artist.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • There is no Sammy Davis Jr. in this scenario because a black man, even playing the part of jester, wouldn’t blend into the color scheme of pure whiteyhood that is the alt-right sagging-beefcake ideal.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Soon after, Peter happens upon that glen and discovers a stash of Henry’s beefcake mags, which Phil kept.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Lots of users want to connect with someone whose avatar is a doe-eyed woman in micro-jorts — or perhaps a hypermasculine beefcake with mandibles that splay out and away from his mouth like bat wings.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • With a boxy shape and beefcake styling, the Atlas provides family-friendly passenger and cargo space without so much as a hint of a mom-mobile image.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 6 July 2017
  • On the positive side, no amount of beefcake doodaddery can mess with the outright practicality baked into the RAV4.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Because climbing is one of the rare elite sports not to favour a specific body type, the routes must be equally challenging to diminutive featherweights and towering beefcakes.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The World Cup is one of the planet’s most reliable beefcake caucuses, and all of us who don’t really love the on-field sport of it should still appreciate that pretty much every team has one dude on the field at all times who is at least a 9 1/2.
    — Ted Berg, For The Win, 13 June 2018
  • The sequel accommodates some genial beefcake in the form of Justin Hartley’s firefighter/male stripper, the love interest for Carla.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • While all the beefcake is cooling itself off by eating baked ziti from catering tins, Jennifer is going around telling everyone how Dolores is avoiding her.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The standout of the film is Hemsworth, a gifted comic actor who took years to really reveal the breadth of his talent, because he was originally pigeonholed by Hollywood as a heroic beefcake.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 June 2022
  • The show’s ultimate depiction of Rock Hudson as a dumb-as-a-rock, barely sentient beefcake is one of its strangest choices; its decision to portray Vivien Leigh as a shrill maniac with a demented voice is yet another.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
  • To add subscribers, Cory convinced popular beefcake photographers, such as George Quaintance, to promote the service, according to Johnson.
    — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Willson’s efforts, which included quelling gay rumors about Hudson by having the beefcake star marry the agent’s secretary, Phyllis Gates, are recounted in painstaking detail.
    — Gary M. Kramer, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
  • Six local photographers had collaborated with area businessmen for the photos, one for each month, featuring tongue-in-cheek, beefcake poses.
    — Steve Smith, Courant Community, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Finland cultivated many photo scrapbooks (his archives) and re-created them as pencil drawings — gay fantasies that became part of the beefcake genre put forth by other photographers, including his friend Robert Mapplethorpe.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Somehow, there are detractors – including Pataky, who tolerated beefcake Thor.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022

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