How to Use paunchy in a Sentence

paunchy

adjective

• Balding and paunchy, Paddock was the opposite of flashy.
  — Scott Glover and Ann O'Neill, CNN, 4 Oct. 2017
• Since then, fame and riches have come quickly for the paunchy kid with the killer punch from the border town of Imperial.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 16 June 2019
• There were paunchy men who penned letters tinged with sad, wry hopefulness.
  — Victoria Redel, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2017
• Rap Monster joins in with both a paunchy rap and a mellow singing verse that diverges from his usual role as a rapper.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 16 June 2017
• But like the man himself, Assassin’s Creed is growing old — and getting paunchy with age.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2011
• Energetic in its delivery, the new song bounces along to a funky, clap-infused beat and paunchy vocals from the act’s 13-members.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2017
• At 48, Hawke was dissolute, his pretty-boy charm replaced with the bullish aggression of paunchy middle age.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
• Called Casting Couch, the piece depicts a paunchy, stubble-cheeked Weinstein seated on a chaise lounge in silk pajamas.
  — Gwynedd Stuart, Los Angeles Magazine, 4 Apr. 2018
• Underestimate his pale, paunchy dad-ness at your own peril.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 22 Oct. 2019
• But then came Know Your Enemy, an awkward record that aimed to recapture the punk ethos of the Richey years; listening to it was gruesomely compelling, like watching a paunchy thirty-five-year old try to pull on an old pair of jeans.
  — Longreads, 25 June 2019
• In the decades when the Congress party dominated politics, paunchy politicians moved into colonial-era bungalows and travelled first class.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• Gozali, a paunchy Chinese-Indonesian with a penchant for American hamburgers, is perhaps an unlikely apostle for sports and fitness.
  — Jon Emont, New York Times, 17 May 2017

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