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

For up to 10 hours each day, Vincentz trimmed tallow from cattle paunches.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2019

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

But Homer never speaks of broth, Antiphanes says, He never boil'd the legs or haunches, But roasted brains and roasted paunches, As did his sires of old.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us