Example Sentences

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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

Hence potbellies, which, according to Tunney, lead to moral collapse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first potbellies arrived in North America in 1985; their U.S. population, according to one estimate, may be as high as 6,000, and breeders at times are hard-pressed to keep up with demand.

From Time Magazine Archive