paunches

Example Sentences

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Loved ones and fellow soldiers, many their age or older, with paunches and fraying hair, were the first to mourn.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022

In one class of twenty-one recruits, many had paunches and gray hairs in their mustaches; the average age was forty-two.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2015

Shoulders could be broadened, eyes brightened, paunches flattened and foreheads heightened.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2014

On a recent day, the park buzzed with visitors and self-styled, middle-aged desperadoes sporting leather chaps and paunches.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2011

Crammed to the brim, greatly pleased with themselves, the hussars strummed on their paunches: "'Tis so much gained!"

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle