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How to use belly in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Belly means the abdomen (especially a fat one). Example: “You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”

Examples of belly by meaning

nounThe abdomen (especially a fat one).

  • You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.

nounStomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion).

  • My belly was full of wine.

nounThe lower fuselage of an airplane.

  • There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 454

nounThe part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity...

  • the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship

verbTo position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.

  • Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.1903 July, Jack London, “The Sounding of the Call”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &...

verbTo swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

  • There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings.1914, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 6, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness

More sentences with belly

  • Get over here you little dogger! That belly needs some scritchin!From the entry dogger
  • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.From the entry penurious
  • So you've been feeling flutters in your belly for three days? Any other symptoms?From the entry flutter
  • The fluttering in her belly reminded her that her child was coming one day soon.From the entry fluttering
  • Most of the men were balding and had poochy beer bellies.From the entry poochy
  • I think belly button rings only look good on women's navels, not men's.From the entry belly button ring
  • The director's first three movies belly flopped.From the entry belly flop
  • Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.From the entry glutton
  • His eyes are bigger than his belly.From the entry have eyes bigger than one's belly
  • Your eyes are bigger than your belly.From the entry have eyes bigger than one's belly
  • I ate until my belly had swole.From the entry swole
  • Pork belly futures have hit rock bottom.From the entry rock bottom
  • He was a big man with a bounteous belly.From the entry bounteous
  • After several financial failures, the organization went belly up.From the entry belly up
  • I sucked in my belly, hoping to hide the extra weight I had put on over the holidays.From the entry suck in
  • The man's belly protruded tubbily over his waistband.From the entry tubbily
  • We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher!From the entry belly itcher
  • Pues al parecer el Fetiche tambien es conocido como "belly Riding", tambien funciona la equiqueta de "FannyPacking".2025 April 7, @HeavyBadger, “Heavy Honey (@HeavyBadger) on X”, in X (formerly Twitter). From the entry fannypacking
  • Once we agreed to a deal full of treatos, frisbees, and belly rubs the rest was history.2023 April, “Precious Pets”, in STROLL Scarsdale, page 16. From the entry treato
  • Blessed with round muscle bellies and a phenomenal structure, he also performed a vacuum pose on stage.2022 October 10, Aaromal Maanas, “2022 Tsunami Nutrition Pro Results and Recap”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2022. From the entry vacuum
  • The windchill enters my body, slips under my shirt right to my belly button.2022, Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling, Bloomsbury, page 39. From the entry windchill
  • A swarm of thin neon tetra with red bellies and bright blue backs flash by.2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 270. From the entry neon tetra
  • Her belly feathers were all ruffled, unlike the straight black waiscoat stripe of her unsitting mate.2021, Mike Tomkies, A Last Wild Place: Seasons in the Wilderness. From the entry unsitting
  • While putting on weight is annoyingly easy, combating your corona belly can feel like scaling Mount Everest.2021 January 3, Lynsey Hope, “Kick-start your fitness now with tips to hit reset whatever your workout personality”, in The Sun. From the entry corona belly
  • Leo has a soft spot in that belly of his for my barbecued pork steaks.2021, John Manion, Murder in St. Charles, Page Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry pork steak
  • If you want to lose that beer belly, start by telling yourself that they are sugar bombs.2019, Laurent Poret, 100 tips for losing weight, page 99. From the entry sugar bomb
  • She was big pregnant and waddled around their home with Matthew teasing her about her big belly.2018 August, Shawn M. Beasley, Killing the Rougarou, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry big pregnant
  • At the mention of yaffling—the cant for eating—Ewan felt a pang of hunger in his belly.2017, Vanessa Kelly, Shana Galen, Anna Campbell, Kate Noble, A Grosvenor Square Christmas. From the entry yaffle
  • In reality I felt like a fat flump, my belly still bulging like a saggy balloon.2017, Susi Osborne, Angelica Stone, →ISBN. From the entry flump
  • “Michael refused to wear an empathy belly, and to be present at the delivery.”2017, Flavia Idà, Children of the Wrong Time. From the entry empathy belly
  • He could scratch the belly of his Catahoula who had too many puppies.2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 36, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Catahoula leopard dog
  • A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.2016, Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?. From the entry blodge
  • I smack my lips, elixir rolling in my belly like molten gold.2015, Viola Carr, “The Art of Making a Point”, in The Devious Dr. Jekyll, Harper Voyager, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry hellbrew
  • When kittens are nursing, they knead against their mothers' bellies to draw out milk.2012, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Cat Lover's Companion, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry knead

Meaning of belly

  1. noun The abdomen (especially a fat one).
  2. noun Stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion).
  3. noun Uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth).

Full definition of belly

Questions about belly in a sentence

How do you use belly in a sentence?
Belly is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”
What is a short sentence with belly?
“My belly was full of wine.”
What does belly mean?
Belly means the abdomen (especially a fat one).

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