Belly

//ˈbɛli//

"Belly" in a Sentence (25 examples)

The belly has no ears.

I hit the man on the belly.

Fair words fill not the belly.

I think it's about time you stopped putting your belly before your looks.

The eye is bigger than the belly.

The belly is not filled with fair words.

I hit him in the belly.

A man with a full belly thinks no one is hungry.

A pot belly is an occupational hazard for office workers.

You shouldn't have your eyes bigger than your belly.

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You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.

My belly was full of wine.

Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […]

There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.

the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship

[…] I cried by reason of mine affliction vnto the Lord, and hee heard mee; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voyce.

At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […]

Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.

The Pow'r appeaſ'd, with Winds ſuffic'd the Sail, / The bellying Canvaſs ſtrutted with the Gale; […]

The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad,

There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings.

1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I" winds from sternward Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...

1930, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1, The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.

Your breath of full consent bellied his sails; […]

A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom.

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