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
They know the smack of miracles that load And swell their paunches; yea, believe, forsooth.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
