How to Use potbellied in a Sentence

potbellied

adjective

• Hang him in a museum—the barman was a potbellied portrait of hear no evil.
  — Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• With proper care, most potbellied pigs have few health problems.
  — Traci Howerton, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• But, catching a glimpse of potbellied Kirpal in his wheelchair, Hwee Bin softened.
  — Rachel Heng, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Behind her in the assembly line, a potbellied man in his late 30s peppers her with the gustatory queries that pass for small talk in south India.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2016
• The building is two cells facing opposite ends with 4-inch thick wooden walls that were heated by potbellied stoves.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2022
• In the far corner, among the anti-pot activists, sat Bill McManus, a potbellied man with a slight drawl whose white moustache is stained yellow-brown by tobacco smoke.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2018
• No Teddy or Ernest, but plenty of late-middle-aged, potbellied fishermen there for a hearty breakfast.
  — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
• Since no one knows what God looks like, the Hindu is free to imagine God as a woman with eight arms riding a tiger; as a potbellied man with an elephant’s head; or as a muscular figure with a monkey’s head and tail.
  — Shashi Tharoor, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• So, in addition to cats and dogs, their menagerie has included a pigeon, a goat, a potbellied big, a monitor lizard and other animals that end up as household pets.
  — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 18 July 2017
• The nature retreat most recently added a family of potbellied pigs, including two babies, found stranded on the side of the road near the Loveland Reservoir, and a group of five Lamancha goats, a breed known for its very small ears.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
• Working behind a partition inside a Scaled Composites hangar in Mojave, Rutan and his team built a potbellied, high-winged, twenty-eight-foot-long plane, with three seats, simple controls, and a rocket in the rear.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Heading out to feed his family’s goat and potbellied pig, Camp recalls his start in Republican politics three decades ago – knocking on doors for candidates to earn cash.
  — Adam Geller, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2017
• In front of them, a United Nations of string instruments congregated with violas da gamba, vihuelas, a harp and a potbellied kora from Mali, alongside an oud and a violin.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• Not content with solely housing cats and dogs, the organization is also home to a plethora of other domestic creatures ranging from rabbits to parrots to potbellied pigs.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Other pasta fun, in various shades: green stuffed pansotti, potbellied Ligurian dumplings with chard, ricotta, walnuts, brown butter, and fiddleheads; curly-wurly trottoli black with squid ink, with uni, leeks, and Calabrian chile.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• Instead, the potbellied sculptures may represent the dead due to their swollen proportions, possibly created to honor ancestors and former community members.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024