paunchy

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Seattle Times

A paunchy, bespectacled, depressed widower with back pain, Farrell oozes melancholy as he checks into a hotel where he hopes to make a love match in 45 days or be turned into the titular animal.

From Salon

Inside the tent, dozens of prospective customers — Algerian generals, representatives of several Asian countries, paunchy men surrounded by grim-faced bodyguards — milled around dioramas featuring Grad missile launchers and checked out shelves lined with weapons.

From Los Angeles Times

Driver, paunchy and swaybacked, is the very model of a modern middle-aged professor, his intellectual curiosity muffled by a certain complacency.

From New York Times