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Example sentences for "paunchy"

Lexicographically close words:
paulownia; paultry; paulum; paunch; paunches; pauper; pauperes; pauperibus; pauperised; pauperism
  1. The boys found themselves facing a little, paunchy man, with an air of vast importance investing him.

  2. The first ragged man beckoned to them, and the fat, paunchy official waved his hand in token of dismissal.

  3. A paunchy man in a bob wig, with a blue coat and Windsor buttons, holding a churchwarden pipe in his right hand and a pewter quart in his left, came towards us.

  4. The Clint Darrow of her girlhood dreams, grown rather paunchy and mottled now, and with the curling black hair but a sparse grizzled fringe, had belied Horace Winter's contemptuous opinion.

  5. One of his captors was the paunchy man, and his hands were heavy and his fingers gripped viciously.

  6. A paunchy boss with underset jaw and overhanging upper lip was profanely urging his helpers back to their jobs.


  7. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paunchy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.