paunchy

Suddenly, your good time is interrupted by an elder pulling you aside and pushing you toward a paunchy, bespectacled sack lurking in a corner.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

At exercise time, a crowd gathered in the prison yard -- young and old, slender and paunchy, all with shaved heads.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Obviously enjoying himself as well is George Lopez who plays Jaime’s paunchy uncle who is an unlikely techno-whiz and the purveyor of many one-liners.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

There were meaty, hulking types and paunchy types and hard femme types like the “Pose” actor Jason A. Rodriguez.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

I was tight-lipped and grim, and, after the events of the last several days, not terribly intimidated by the authority of two paunchy old men.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

At about the halfway mark, “The Disciple” flashes forward several years to find an older, paunchier, more cynical Sharad still plugging away, now balancing equally unfulfilling careers as a music teacher and occasional performer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2021

Paul Shipman, Redhook’s founding CEO — grayer and paunchier now, but still boyish and ebullient — regales one booth with now-they-can-be-told tales from the early days.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2017

At 68, he may be grayer and paunchier, but the image he projects — that assured, steely intellect wrapped in that warm Tennessee drawl — seems all the more indelible and authoritative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2017

At 59, he is a little paunchier, a little slower, and he breathes harder on the run; but he can still haul himself up a scaffolding with the best.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trey met her at six, and he was paunchier than she’d remembered, his high school brawn run to a little fat.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow