How to Use bellied in a Sentence

bellied

adjective

• Sometimes a full-bellied trout had taken the place of the young salmon on the end of the thread.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019
• At times the clouds seemed swollen and dark-bellied, as if laden with rain.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• In the shade of the jungle, a round-bellied orangutan glides towards the ground.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• In one study, voles froze longer in the presence of white-bellied owls than red ones.
  — National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
• Guston worked in the streaky, pale-bellied tones of an unhealthy white man’s skin, which is to say of his own.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• Chris is living in the back of the building, in an apartment with a big, white-bellied alley cat named Spud.
  — Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1994
• But not a hairy, or a downy, or a pileated, or a red-bellied (named for its red head, just to mess with you), or a black-backed, or an acorn.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
• Thousands of shorebirds and a special red-bellied mouse that exists nowhere else in the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Kids will enjoy the jokes about flatulence, while adults will fall in love with George Clooney's pot-bellied pig.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
• For this design, a tiny model of a very pregnant bare-bellied Kylie was attached to a nude pink nail.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 20 Feb. 2018
• Downy, hairy, red-bellied, and pileated are the four common woodpecker species this time of year.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
• Eberlein—soft-spoken, blue-eyed, big-bellied, with curly dark hair and a long face—had worked this stretch of creek bed before.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2017
• Like a pot-bellied pig, earlier BMWs were like the piglets—cute and manageable.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2021
• During the slow, dull years of Soviet rule, the steam rooms of the Rudas filled up with big-bellied men who sweat away the hours in conversation.
  — András Szántó, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2018
• The most omnivorous of our woodpeckers seem to be the red-bellied.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
• The Silver Spirit may not be quite the fastest machine available, but to lump it in with all the others in the soft-bellied lounge-car class would be a big mistake.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2020
• The bird species affected include black-bellied whistling ducks, blue-winged teal and a variety of egret species.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
• So all of the blank-bellied Sneetches line up to give McBean their money and emerge from the machine with the status signifier.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The affected species include black-bellied whistling ducks, blue-winged teal and a variety of egrets.
  — NBC News, 10 Sep. 2021
• In a small glade a sculpted two-headed snake sticks out of the ground, and elsewhere statuettes of round-bellied men gather at giant tree roots.
  — Femke Van Zeijl, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2016
• Three American golden-plovers and a black-bellied plover were seen at the Longmeadow Flats.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• Things that make hicksploitation films awesome: Big-bellied sheriffs on the take.
  — AL.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Kurt is stocky, pot-bellied, and looks more like a donkey than the domestic or wild horse you're probably used to seeing.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2020
• The birds affected have been identified as black-bellied whistling ducks, blue-winged teal and a variety of egret species.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2021
• Think of the lagoons in Audubon Park today, which in winter often attract flocks of black-bellied whistling ducks, mallards and other species on the move.
  — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• John Davidson lives down the street and saw what might have been another dangerous snake in his backyard -- a red-bellied black snake.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2017
• These white-bellied sea eagles and Brahminy kite eagles have identified the arrival of a tourist boat as a sign of feeding time.
  — Ronan O'Connell, CNN, 10 May 2017
• In the meantime, as dancers take the stage as opulent flowers and full-bellied mice, Wedig-Johnston is ready just offstage – in her own costume of sorts.
  — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2021
• Anchorage was still rustic enough that a pot-bellied, wood-burning stove warmed the store, a feature long lost from modern book shops.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2021
• But animals like the white-bellied pangolin, found throughout Africa, remind us that armor is often not enough.
  — Nyeema C. Harris, Scientific American, 17 June 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024