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
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
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
But the ancients were not acquainted with the fashion of bringing on paunches, or lettuces, or anything of the sort, before dinner, as is done now.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
