How to Use paunch in a Sentence
paunch
noun- He used to be very thin but now he has a slight paunch.
- He sat with his hands folded over his paunch.
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Tapper emerged, a man in his mid-60s with white hair, a paunch and a large smartphone clipped to his belt.
—Alec MacGillis/propublica, New York Times, 23 May 2017
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Gone was the Bear, and in his place was a lean man, skinny even, though with a paunch that came with the years, nearly 73 at the time.
—John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
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Then a burly, shirtless man with a hairy, sagging paunch appears at the front door.
—Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
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The carefree, six-pack wild child of the late 1980s is now a reflective and sober man with a middle-aged paunch and gait.
—Rodney Ho, ajc, 26 May 2022
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The extra paunch would also have helped these penguins stay warm in the water.
—Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
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However, hit a bone, the paunch, or a lot of fat, and the wound will be nasty but superficial.
—Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
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Though Seal weighed in at a reported 300 pounds or so, Cruise doesn't appear to sport so much as a paunch in the trailer.
—Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 9 June 2017
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Beavis, on the other hand, has just a slight paunch and a few wrinkles to go with his reading glasses.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2022
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Why not kill two of these annoying-ass birds with one stone by making some friends and staving off that postgrad paunch at the same time?
—Clay Skipper, GQ, 6 May 2018
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Joe wears a thin shirt streaked with three different colors of spills and shorts that sit under his paunch of a belly.
—jsonline.com, 18 Oct. 2017
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Hall, 53, is a soft-spoken snow-removal worker with a slight paunch, a salt-and-pepper beard and a matched set of .45 caliber pistols.
—Kirk Johnson, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2018
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After five movies, the T. rex now evokes the soulful pathos of seeing a once-beloved action star trying to keep up with the new kids, but with a little too much paunch.
—Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 5 June 2018
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Most of its members were older white men with trim white beards or ruddy faces, a Leatherman looped through a belt buried at varying depths of paunch.
—Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
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Raymond taught the Phanatic what became his signature moves: how to whomp his paunch, how to suction a plunger to the head of a bald man, how to stand at a distance and land rings on the plunger.
—New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
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The bartender was a big, nasty-looking old guy with an enormous paunch, a flat-top haircut four inches high, and an unlit cigar turned backwards in his mouth.
—Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 16 Feb. 2022
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And, outside a minor paunch and a rapidly expanding billfold, there's nothing heavy about him.
—Michael Arace, courant.com, 10 May 2017
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Not enough time to fall in love with gluten, grow a slight paunch, tame his golf swing, or find a wooden bench outside a tackle shop where everyone gossips and drinks sludge coffee.
—Jason Gay, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
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The leader of all this non-action is the middle-aged Agent Garrick, a shambolic, avuncular presence with a paunch and a nervous cough.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
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Pineda, a 6-foot-7 right-hander with loose limbs and an ample paunch, has been a confounding presence in the Yankees’ rotation for the last three seasons.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
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During a concert in Nashville, Mr. Yow made a mock apology to the audience about his paunch, then executed some sit-ups mid-song.
—John Jurgensen, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
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The burly mustachioed butcher had his bloody apron tied tightly over his paunch and was standing in the doorway, inadvertently blocking my way in.
—Anissa Helou, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
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The Platonic ideal of underwear changed from the barely there thong to an oversized brief with a navel-hugging elastic waistband and a silhouette designed to hold in paunch.
—Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019
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After years of rigorous weight training, plenty of former athletes end their playing days and subsequently let their once steely cores morph into paunches and their rock-hard biceps atrophy into flab.
—Gabriel Baumgaertner, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
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Unlike Parisian pooches though, one distinguishing characteristic about Philly pooches is their unmistakable paunches.
—Kimberly Garrison, Philly.com, 1 Aug. 2017
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Kim, whose substantial paunch and perennial stubble lent him an air of cavalier dishevelment, occasionally spoke out against his family’s rule — and spoke favorably of openness and globalism — in interviews with Japanese media.
—Los Angeles Times, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2017
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