potbelly
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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
The loft, which rented for $40 a month, had no electricity — power was wired in from a light fixture in the hall — and was heated with a potbelly stove.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
The confrontation with Rod Steiger as a potbelly, gum-chewing tough sheriff is cruel and funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
She had a hard, bitter face, and Benito was beginning to get a potbelly.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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
The gurgling babies pleasure the eye — no trachoma, no scabies, no rickety limbs, no potbellies of famine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many top officers, notably Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, also sport unmartial potbellies.
From Time Magazine Archive
