Paunchy

//ˈpɔːnt͡ʃi//

"Paunchy" in a Sentence (6 examples)

The paunchy man struggled to tie his shoes.

He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.

A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

"They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!"

"I don't think personalities change," Bill said. "We get a little paunchier and we get a few wrinkles and a little gray hair. But you have the same personality."

The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park’s paunchiest are pitted against one another. Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday.

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