belly

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

A shrill chuckle at the top of his throat, it quickly becomes a belly laugh, and he’s got some belly, so it’s a big noise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Cher was widely reported to be the first woman to show her belly button on US television - and Mackie's designs were pivotal to that.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Is it any wonder that “Widow’s Bay,” which miraculously serves up equal portions of jump scares and belly laughs, is this season’s hottest series?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

He closed the book and rubbed his belly.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

"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

“They were shoulder to shoulder, bellies to backs,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The teacher cued us onto our bellies for a backbend sequence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Ears, noses, eyelids and bellies are also vulnerable.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025

The beasts sniffed and whined, but one by one, they lay down flat on their bellies.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

Later, at Nick’s Cove, a local restaurant with a pier that stretches over the bay, Elliott chatted with a woman who had bellied up to the bar to watch a baseball game.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

She also was fed rotting capelin — described as soft bellied and smelling bad — despite the attending vet’s objections.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021

Bars bellied up to in Fort Wayne, Bloomington and Indianapolis relayed the same result — the game’s rarely on, no local’s ever raised an issue.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2017

They wrote their names upon their leaves, fastened them to their breast pockets, and bellied up to the long oak table that served as our communal desk.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Ambrogi has since put on a mask, but he refuses to prevent customers from bellying up to the bar in defiance of state rules strictly limiting indoor dining.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2020

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

Two weeks after the Health Department delivered it’s verdict, customers were bellying up to the restaurant’s polished wooden counters and booths as usual on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2017

I’d imagined bellying sails tweaked by rigging-scampering deckhands as the jaunty ship with its cheerful yellow railing plowed through foaming water beneath the brilliant orange bridge towers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2016

Quickly she hid three goblets in her bellying dress to carry with her while I tagged along in my bewilderment.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer