belly

The final indignity: belly fat that rendered my favorite jeans unzippable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Then, breaking the tension with his trademark belly laugh, he admitted his problem was attachment to Buddhism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"I need to get that fire my belly."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

And so, on a late morning in late August, I buzzed the seventh floor and rode the elevator straight into the belly of the beast.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Oh, right,” said Mara, struggling with a stubborn knot near the sheep’s belly.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Bulky items such as server racks have to be transported on freighters built for large shipments, unlike small, soft-sided e-commerce packages that can travel in the bellies of passenger planes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

"This is the first evidence that our bellies expand with age due to the APCs' high output of new fat cells."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026

I enjoy having their heads on my lap and my hands on their bellies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

There were flashpoints at Lord's and Old Trafford, and Stokes' men looked a better side with fire in their bellies.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025

“How can you eat me? You’re too full to eat—all of you are. Your bellies are as heavy as sacks of melons.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

You can see some of the surprising new finds on the citizen science project Redmap, such as sightings of the tropical yellow bellied sea snake in Tasmanian waters.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

From the eastern newt to the “gorgeous” emperor newt, to the fire bellied toad.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021

Bikers bellied up to bars and packed into rock shows.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2021

Other attendees, more interested in topping the tale of the cowpoke on the next stool, were bellied up to the bar.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018

A man she’d met before bellied up a couple of seats down the bar.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

All you need to do — beyond bellying up to the never-ending breakfast bar — is be vigilant about the demon carbs and sugars that lurk everywhere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2021

My favorite San Francisco poet these days is August Kleinzahler, who often writes about bellying up to a bar.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019

Overheard from a gaggle of White House reporters bellying up for glasses of cab: “I needed this — it’s been that kind of day.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019

A steady stream of moviegoers bellying up to the concession stand for a brew seems unlikely.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2017

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov