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
The camera cuts to the group—fortysomethings, a few with paunches and shaggy wigs.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 31, 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
At first his knees knocked together as he did this, while he marked, with half-stolen glances, the long beards and goodly paunches of the noble knights.
From Folk-lore and Legends: German by Anonymous
