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 little Lapp dogs occasionally scented them beneath the snow, and many tell-tale "paunches" showed where deer had been killed and carried off.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
