tummy

Example Sentences

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"My favourite book makes my tummy funny, because I laugh," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

It added she had an abdominoplasty, also known as a tummy tuck, and liposuction on 7 March 2022, before she experienced "sudden loss of consciousness".

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

“They do know when someone someone’s ill, right?” he said to no one before scratching Penny’s tummy and cooing, “You know I’m ill, right? I’m ill!”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

The bumps push out candy-striped and aproned gowns; they are exaggerated by belted waists, and one particularly protuberant tummy doubles as a perch for a parakeet.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

Sheed winced from a sharp pain in his side, and his tummy felt like the time Grandma said he shouldn’t have eaten so many shrimp.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles