paunchy

Example Sentences

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Driver, paunchy and swaybacked, is the very model of a modern middle-aged professor, his intellectual curiosity muffled by a certain complacency.

From New York Times

The perennial hard-nosed cop, Franz has a sweaty feast as Sipowicz, a paunchy, loud-dressing, self-destructive, hot-tempered boozer who abducts an obnoxious mobster from a restaurant at gunpoint and assaults him, all in public view.

From Los Angeles Times

The actor is unrecognizable under a bald cap, mustache and bushy sideburns that look like a family of woolly bear caterpillars have colonized his head, a paunchy fat suit and pudgy facial prosthetics.

From Washington Post

He’s woozily posed as if for a cellphone shot with the paunchy boss and a cringing young woman.

From Los Angeles Times

I moved to Iowa City for graduate school, and became a paunchy average guy.

From The Guardian