silver belly
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Block Island and Montauk Point armed with expensive rods & reels, Atlantic market fishermen had been familiar with a hard-headed sea monster with a silver belly, blue-bronze back and corrugated spine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inc.'s airport at Santa Monica, Calif. last week, Test Pilot John Martin climbed into the silver belly of the newest Douglas transport, the DC-7.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he cleared the harpoon line and let it run slowly through his raw hands and, when he could see, he saw the fish was on his back with his silver belly up.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
The species that live on the surface have, as a general rule, a blue back and silver belly.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
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