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paunches



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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

And presently after he adds— Why, my friend, hinder me from washing my paunches, And from selling my sausages?

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



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