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potbelly

[pot-bel-ee] / ˈpɒtˌbɛl i /


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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

His swanky West Hollywood atelier had colorful wallpaper and African masks on the walls, a huge potbelly stove and a full bar, where customers could indulge throughout a fitting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

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

With helmet down and torch blazing, he practiced to his heart’s content, welding all manner of metal objects—forks, shovels, horseshoes, even the grate off a potbelly stove—right into the gate.

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

Many top officers, notably Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, also sport unmartial potbellies.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gurgling babies pleasure the eye — no trachoma, no scabies, no rickety limbs, no potbellies of famine.

From Time Magazine Archive




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