How to Use bellied in a Sentence

bellied

adjective
  • At times the clouds seemed swollen and dark-bellied, as if laden with rain.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
  • The first was to shoot a black-bellied whistling duck and a fulvous whistling duck.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Downy, hairy, red-bellied, and pileated are the four common woodpecker species this time of year.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Eberlein—soft-spoken, blue-eyed, big-bellied, with curly dark hair and a long face—had worked this stretch of creek bed before.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2017
  • The most omnivorous of our woodpeckers seem to be the red-bellied.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • But not a hairy, or a downy, or a pileated, or a red-bellied (named for its red head, just to mess with you), or a black-backed, or an acorn.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
  • Chris is living in the back of the building, in an apartment with a big, white-bellied alley cat named Spud.
    — Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1994
  • Kurt is stocky, pot-bellied, and looks more like a donkey than the domestic or wild horse you're probably used to seeing.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Anchorage was still rustic enough that a pot-bellied, wood-burning stove warmed the store, a feature long lost from modern book shops.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2021
  • John Davidson lives down the street and saw what might have been another dangerous snake in his backyard -- a red-bellied black snake.
    — CBS News, 7 July 2017
  • In her before photo, Vanessa, 8, is a smiling and slightly round-bellied little girl.
    — Virginia Sole-Smith, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Dominant and well distributed but soft-bellied and uncertain.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • During the slow, dull years of Soviet rule, the steam rooms of the Rudas filled up with big-bellied men who sweat away the hours in conversation.
    — András Szántó, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Think of the lagoons in Audubon Park today, which in winter often attract flocks of black-bellied whistling ducks, mallards and other species on the move.
    — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • In the meantime, as dancers take the stage as opulent flowers and full-bellied mice, Wedig-Johnston is ready just offstage – in her own costume of sorts.
    — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The Hanbys named the Billiken after the popular good luck charm, a fat-bellied, smiling figure that was then an Alaska gift shop staple.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • There have seemingly been no further reports of the flock of seven black-bellied whistling-ducks, which were present one week ago at Lucy Vincent Beach in Chilmark.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021

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