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Examples of paunch in a Sentence
He sat with his hands folded over his paunch.
He used to be very thin but now he has a slight paunch.
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The display ends and Prabowo strolls the ranks of recruits, asking their home province, their university major, and razzing a couple of the stoutest about their paunch.
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Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
About 200 yards below us is a stag, carrying the paunch and heavy antlers of an old highland warrior.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
That’s because Kelly is as phony as her foamy pregnant paunch, having built a career on a mountain of lies similar in scale to ad man Draper’s.
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My husband, who has a noticeable paunch, approached her next, asking her to let him by.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
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Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
About 200 yards below us is a stag, carrying the paunch and heavy antlers of an old highland warrior.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
That’s because Kelly is as phony as her foamy pregnant paunch, having built a career on a mountain of lies similar in scale to ad man Draper’s.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
My husband, who has a noticeable paunch, approached her next, asking her to let him by.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
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“Paunch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paunch. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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paunch
noun
ˈpȯnch 
ˈpänch
1
: the belly together with its contents
2
Medical Definition
paunch
noun
: rumen
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