paunchy
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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
The Sycamores were the No. 1 seed in the NIT and drew a national following drawn in by the paunchy goggles-wearing leading scorer Robbie Avila, nicknamed “Cream Abdul-Jabbar.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
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 ● Mar. 10, 2023
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 ● Nov. 23, 2022
Her stomach was paunchy, but her legs, as always, were thin and pretty.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
At 59, he is a little paunchier, a little slower, and he breathes harder on the run; but he can still haul himself up a scaffolding with the best.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then purple hoods, and other colours, a little paunchier, waddling more, and lastly the archbishop, very sumptuous.
From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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