What is "potbellied"

Usage examples of "potbellied".

Half a dozen guerrillas too young to grow beards sat around a small potbellied stove sucking on hookahs.

Then the office area with a desk and a few old file cabinets and a timeclock on the wall, a rack of timecards, the potbellied stove, a toolchest, a few picks and shovels in a rusty tangle, a calendar showing a blonde in a bikini.

A potbellied Congolese policeman with blue-black skin, a presidential air of self-importance, and a wen under his left eye sat in the anteroom behind a flyspecked desk, reading a French-language newspaper whose headline proclaimed afrry disaster on the Kilombo River, the same muddy watercourse that flowed past Mogado.

In a moment of self-pity, he saw himself at the helm, middle-aged, potbellied, once the master of a proud fishing boat, now only the whoremaster of a garbage scow.

A potbellied man with a shock of wispy white hair that stands on end in the breeze drops a sack of flour onto a hand cart, then looks up.

A wooden floor appeared in The Swamp, as well as insulation and two potbellied oil stoves—.

It was easy to surrender to the potbellied, parboiled ennui of the island.

Last night, in the superintendent's basement apartment, as they shared a bottle of wine, Sparky had told Vanadium numerous weird tales about Cain: The Night He Shot Off His Toe, The Day He Was Saved from a Meditative Trance and Paralytic Bladder, The Day the Psychotic Girlfriend Brought a Vietnamese Potbellied Pig to His Apartment When He Was Out and Fed It Laxatives and Penned It in His Bedroom .

The Night He Shot Off His Toe, The Day He Was Saved from a Meditative Trance and Paralytic Bladder, The Day the Psychotic Girlfriend Brought a Vietnamese Potbellied Pig to His Apartment When He Was Out and Fed It Laxatives and Penned It in His Bedroom .

A large potbellied pig snuffled and snorted its way up to the fence dividing the two lots.

Melinda, stout, inquisitive, and bearded as a potbellied pig, has taken quite a shine to me.

Still staggering drunk and naked, a sickly pale, two-legged, potbellied pig, hairless but for the fringe of reddish fur on his behind, Grab lurched for the frame of the third-story window.

But I had a little pride and I went for the guy closest to me, a potbellied pig of a man with greasy dark hair.

None of these people understand that with this vehicle, I could crush them like a potbellied pig under an armored personnel carrier.

There was a wooden counter leading back from beside the door and a potbellied stove in the corner, and a large blueprint map of the district and some curled-up calendars on the wall.