Examples of paunchy in a Sentence

not surprisingly, the new Hollywood biopic casts a young, athetically trim actor in the role of the paunchy, balding artist

Recent Examples on the Web The father, Alexei Shostakov (played by David Harbour), is now a bearded and paunchy Soviet-era superhero known as Red Guardian, the counterpart of Captain America. — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021 One recent late afternoon, a group of paunchy middle-aged men seated in plastic chairs on the sidewalk debated measures to fight the virus. — Renata Brito, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2020 The puzzled batter swings at the next pitch, grounds it to short, and is astonished to see the paunchy second-base umpire shifting to his right to field the ball, while the shortstop tries to coach his footwork. — Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020 If coolness denotes — or once denoted — a certain indifference to what people think, then these middle-aged mothers with their silly, adorable shtick and their paunchy husbands are perhaps the only cool people left on our try-hard planet. — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019 In the decades when the Congress party dominated politics, paunchy politicians moved into colonial-era bungalows and travelled first class. — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019 Underestimate his pale, paunchy dad-ness at your own peril. — John Wenzel, The Know, 22 Oct. 2019 Since then, fame and riches have come quickly for the paunchy kid with the killer punch from the border town of Imperial. — Tim Arango, New York Times, 16 June 2019 At 48, Hawke was dissolute, his pretty-boy charm replaced with the bullish aggression of paunchy middle age. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019 See More

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