paunchy

Suddenly, your good time is interrupted by an elder pulling you aside and pushing you toward a paunchy, bespectacled sack lurking in a corner.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

At exercise time, a crowd gathered in the prison yard -- young and old, slender and paunchy, all with shaved heads.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Short and paunchy with a stoic face and gray hair, Lara said he still puts on a brave face around his wife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

The short, paunchy, balding Young was the sort of actor who always seemed to play middle-aged no matter his age.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

The man on the left had a paunchy middle and a bored-looking expression.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

At about the halfway mark, “The Disciple” flashes forward several years to find an older, paunchier, more cynical Sharad still plugging away, now balancing equally unfulfilling careers as a music teacher and occasional performer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2021

Paul Shipman, Redhook’s founding CEO — grayer and paunchier now, but still boyish and ebullient — regales one booth with now-they-can-be-told tales from the early days.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2017

At 68, he may be grayer and paunchier, but the image he projects — that assured, steely intellect wrapped in that warm Tennessee drawl — seems all the more indelible and authoritative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2017

In the years since the war, he has grown paunchier, more stooped, and greyer at the temples.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trey met her at six, and he was paunchier than she’d remembered, his high school brawn run to a little fat.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow