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

Wrinkly bottoms and middle-aged paunches are rarely seen on our screens, banished from viewers’ eyes.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2020

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

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

The page and the polisher actually stretched themselves out into the room like two felled trees, and their puffed-up paunches, the world was to fancy, lay like wine-sacks on their tressles.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul