potbellied

IPA: pɑbˈɛɫid

Examples of "potbellied" in Sentences

This cast iron creation was also called the potbellied stove.
“If you turn out to be a potbellied, middle-aged accountant, I will be supremely annoyed.”
Now Father was potbellied and balding and fierce, and Jane was more than a little afraid of him.
Growing up, we had bunnies, potbellied pigs, puppies, kitties, ducks, chickens … we had it all – (not all at once, of course) – and we also had the BEIGE carpet … oy vey!
In the past, "toasted skin syndrome" has occurred in workers whose jobs require being close to a heat source, including bakers and glass blowers, and, before central heating, in people who huddled near potbellied stoves to stay warm.
You don't often run across a hard-boiled literary PI who's potbellied, recovers from a beating by pigging out on baked beans and complains to a client's girlfriend that her clothes smell bad when what he's actually reacting to is the cologne she carefully picked out for the day.