How to Use belly in a Sentence

belly

1 of 2 noun

• They slid down the snowy hill on their bellies.
• He got down on his belly to crawl.
• This summer, the show will for the first time be staged in the belly of the beast.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Irish variety comes from the back of the pig, rather than the belly.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2024
• The fire in the belly of Mrs. Lovett’s macabre oven doesn’t extend to his.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• The pack's thin cells form the Lyriq's belly pan and span the area between the front and rear axles.
  — Michael Simari, Car and Driver, 25 May 2023
• The skirt, which sat at the apex of her bump, left the top of her belly exposed.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2023
• Imagine a little kid on their belly, on the ground, in the grass and the dirt and the mud.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• At ten paces, Caine fires before John and gets him in the side of the belly.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
• Bun’s charge is the friendly white guy with the belly and the tonsure.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• By the end of the week, her back and belly were dotted with a dozen of these odd bubbles.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• The belly of the plant — the piña — looks, indeed, like a giant pineapple.
  — Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, the front of the jeans was too snug through my lower belly area.
  — Sarah Chiwaya, refinery29.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• The Buick’s long hood slid beneath the belly of the semitrailer.
  — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
• As the weeks passed, Kaiden watched his mother’s belly grow.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 2 May 2023
• Sigourney was able to reach her hand out and touch one of their bellies.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023
• More like there’s-a-no belly fat to be found on this scammer’s bod.
  — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• The top half of the plane would have been white and the bottom, including the belly, would have been dark blue.
  — Darlene Superville, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
• This was Roth-Con, a confab of Philip stans in the belly of Rothlandia.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• But what is lesser known is how that fire in her belly came to be.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
• Each of these knives has had its butt kicked—and its belly, bolsters, spine, and scales.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
• The brown booby is a large warm-water species with brown plumage and a white belly.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• People refer to this spot as the ground scar or belly spot.
  — Justin Miller Communications Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 30 June 2023
• In contrast, Fred had a huge pot belly that hung well over his belt.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2023
• Flank: This is the belly area, which produces flank, skirt, and hanger steaks.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
• Beavers are skinned up the belly in what’s called an open style, and pelts can be sold at auction or tanned to keep.
  — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• Deer mice tend to be bigger than house mice and have white bellies and brown or tan backs.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Its fun name is a play on that glow that travels from heart to belly with a sip of bourbon.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2023
• Tisdale bared her belly in the pictures, unbuttoning her white dress shirt under her chest to reveal her baby bump.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
• These include not looking at the solar eclipse, staying indoors, or wearing a safety pin on the belly in Mexican American cultures.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024

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belly

2 of 2 verb

• Some bought beer to lug home; other loyal denizens bellied up to the bar.
  — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
• The rest of us will belly up to the bar or take a chance on dripping guacamole on the living room carpet.
  — Tom Powers, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2017
• Instead, the presidents have bellied their schools up to the bar and really opened the tap.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2017
• Several valiant attempts to belly crawl their way in don’t work.
  — Danielle Venton, National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2017
• The bar opened its doors in 1852 as Peter King’s Granite Store, a general mercantile, where miners could belly up to the bar — planks plunked atop barrels — and get a drink.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
• Though some stars are the types of muscular super-humans who populate sports like football and basketball, others are lanky, beer-bellied, stocky, or short.
  — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Stunning red berries appear in late summer and fall that attractive a number of birds, including the yellow bellied sapsucker.
  — Jill Sell, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Once upon a time, Globe attendees also bellied up to the open bar in a boozy spectacle, but nominees — heeding the scolding eyes of their publicists — have largely started sticking to water.
  — Brooks Barnes and Cara Buckley, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2017
• In Dayton, for instance, buses ran continuously to breweries, brewers bellying up to several bars to sample and compare various styles.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017
• Some bought beer to lug home; other loyal denizens bellied up to the bar.
  — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
• The rest of us will belly up to the bar or take a chance on dripping guacamole on the living room carpet.
  — Tom Powers, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2017
• Instead, the presidents have bellied their schools up to the bar and really opened the tap.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2017
• Several valiant attempts to belly crawl their way in don’t work.
  — Danielle Venton, National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2017
• The bar opened its doors in 1852 as Peter King’s Granite Store, a general mercantile, where miners could belly up to the bar — planks plunked atop barrels — and get a drink.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
• Though some stars are the types of muscular super-humans who populate sports like football and basketball, others are lanky, beer-bellied, stocky, or short.
  — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Stunning red berries appear in late summer and fall that attractive a number of birds, including the yellow bellied sapsucker.
  — Jill Sell, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Once upon a time, Globe attendees also bellied up to the open bar in a boozy spectacle, but nominees — heeding the scolding eyes of their publicists — have largely started sticking to water.
  — Brooks Barnes and Cara Buckley, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2017
• In Dayton, for instance, buses ran continuously to breweries, brewers bellying up to several bars to sample and compare various styles.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024