paunches
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
The camera cuts to the group—fortysomethings, a few with paunches and shaggy wigs.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 31, 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
Their paunches were heavy with the goodly supplies of sustenance which they drew from the bodies of those who, in their blind ignorance and stupidity, were powerless to resist their insidious blandishments.
From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell
