potbelly
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Talia Greis, from Australia, won Macro, with an abstract portrait of a potbelly seahorse in the murky waters near Bare Island, Sydney.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
While the Kumasaka family was incarcerated in Minidoka, a fire caused by an overheated potbelly stove burned down the Green Lake Community Center and vandals extensively damaged the farm’s greenhouses.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
The confrontation with Rod Steiger as a potbelly, gum-chewing tough sheriff is cruel and funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Forks, kettles, horseshoes, even the grate off an old potbelly stove.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
In Palomar, there are heroes with potbellies and wrinkles and pockmarked faces.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
He stared out at a room full of gray hair, bald spots, potbellies, crow’s feet, laugh lines, liver spots, spider veins.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2019
Suits idealize and triangulate the male torso, smoothing spare tires and hiding potbellies; dresses nip and tuck and create curves where there were none.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2016
In addition to their two Vietnamese potbellies, Raymond Sattler, a Wilmington, N.C., neurosurgeon, and his wife Debbie have a pair of champion Durocs, which currently weigh in at 700 lbs. apiece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Love handles, potbellies, thick thighs are all part of Mother Nature's grand design.
From Time Magazine Archive
