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
“We were crowded into one 20-by-20-foot room. There were ten of us all together! We had a single light bulb and a potbelly stove. No running water!”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
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
He looked the same as he had in Kansas, but Percy still couldn’t get over the differences between Bacchus and his old not-so-much-of-a-friend Mr. D. Bacchus was meaner and leaner, with less of a potbelly.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
The first potbellies arrived in North America in 1985; their U.S. population, according to one estimate, may be as high as 6,000, and breeders at times are hard-pressed to keep up with demand.
From Time Magazine Archive
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