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
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
Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
