paunchy

Example Sentences

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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

The Sycamores were the No. 1 seed in the NIT and drew a national following drawn in by the paunchy goggles-wearing leading scorer Robbie Avila, nicknamed “Cream Abdul-Jabbar.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2024

A paunchy, bespectacled, depressed widower with back pain, Farrell oozes melancholy as he checks into a hotel where he hopes to make a love match in 45 days or be turned into the titular animal.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2023

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 • Nov. 23, 2022

One of them, a big, paunchy man, has a cigar, unlit, in his mouth.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman