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

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

Shakespeare says fat paunches make lean pates, but this is taken from a Greek proverb.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles