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potbelly

[pot-bel-ee] / ˈpɒtˌbɛl i /


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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Talia Greis, from Australia, won Macro, with an abstract portrait of a potbelly seahorse in the murky waters near Bare Island, Sydney.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2024

It was raining and 44 degrees by the time everyone arrived, so the group retreated inside the cabin and huddled around its potbelly stove.

From New York Times Oct. 15, 2021

Around a potbelly stove, students reviewed cases under the famously stern eye of Dean John Condon.

From Seattle Times Apr. 18, 2021

McDonough, as tall as the others but with a potbelly, was, like Perlstein and Proctor, in his late twenties or early thirties.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

In Palomar, there are heroes with potbellies and wrinkles and pockmarked faces.

From New York Times Nov. 19, 2022

He stared out at a room full of gray hair, bald spots, potbellies, crow’s feet, laugh lines, liver spots, spider veins.

From The Guardian May 1, 2019

Suits idealize and triangulate the male torso, smoothing spare tires and hiding potbellies; dresses nip and tuck and create curves where there were none.

From New York Times Jan. 6, 2016

About one-tenth the size of the average Hampshire pig, mature potbellies weigh from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. and stand coffee-table tall.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is an epidemic of potbellies in the camps.

From Time Magazine Archive




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