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Example sentences for "belly"

Lexicographically close words:
bellowings; bellows; bellringer; bells; bellum; bellyful; bellying; belo; belone; belong
  1. The examination of the remains showed that "one of the bodies not only had the neck completely cut through, but the belly cut open, so that the entrails, lungs, and liver were exposed.

  2. These Centapees are 4 or 5 Inches long, as big as a Goose-Quill, but flattish; of a Dun or reddish colour on the Back, but Belly whitish and full of Legs on each side the Belly.

  3. There are of these Proes or Boats used in many places of the East Indies, but with a Belly and a little Boat on each side.

  4. Only at Mindanao I saw one like these, with the Belly and a little Boat only on one side, and the other flat, but not so neatly built.

  5. A Tyrolese story tells how it was the doom of a lovely maiden with golden hair to be transported into the belly of a whale if ever a sunbeam fell on her.

  6. So she vanished from the coach and was spirited away into the belly of a whale in the neighbouring sea.

  7. Thus she continued to the end of the first monthly period, at the expiry of which she was gashed on the breast and belly as well as all down the back.

  8. Frog, swelling and blowing up her speckled belly to a great degree.

  9. He leaned against a willow, his face suddenly old and white with something more than exhaustion, and laughed in such an oddly pitched, cracked tone that the wolf-dog slunk to him on his belly and licked the dangling hand.

  10. Toward the top of this eminence he changed his lope for a skulking trot that brought his belly fur trailing on the ground.

  11. The loser is laid flat upon her back; the victress, belly to belly with her adversary, clutches her with her legs and prevents her from moving a limb.

  12. The tiny grub is thus able, as soon as it hatches, to dig into the giant's belly in full security.

  13. If I give them a fresh Mole, they emerge from their retreat by the entrance corridor and come to hide themselves beneath the belly of the beast.

  14. I ran up and saw a Grasshopper gutting the belly of a struggling Cicada.

  15. She has the same pot-belly when she finishes rearing her young as when she began.

  16. Her fat belly proclaims the advent of laying-time.

  17. The eyes took their fill of light; the belly remained in the dark.

  18. As a rule, the end of the burrow widens into a side-chamber, a lounge or resting-place where the Spider meditates at length and is content to lead a life of quiet when her belly is full.

  19. No, for the belly is certainly more juicy; and the Empusa refuses it, though she eats up her House-fly to the last particle.

  20. The grub is at dinner: head downwards, it is digging into the limp belly of one of the caterpillars.

  21. A Fly fills their belly for twenty-four hours at least.

  22. The man surrendered to his terror, clapping heels to his horse's old ribs, beating it over the head and under the belly with the whip until it galloped as it had not galloped in years.

  23. He'll kiss your hand, and be obedient, and crawl on his belly to do what you want him to do.

  24. You will ask how there can be found space between the insect's belly and the cotton, to which at first it was closely applied, for so large a mass of eggs?

  25. Pruni), which covered their eggs with a white cottony down detached from their belly by means of their hind legs[121].

  26. When I wrote to you upon the motions of insects, I informed you that some larvae moved by means of legs upon their back[317], but I was not then aware that any were furnished with them both on the back and the belly at the same time.

  27. On the belly near the anus these males have four fleshy appendages, the posterior ones setaceous and long, and the anterior pair filiform and shorter.

  28. Will sprawl, now that the heat of day is best, Flat on his belly in the pit's much mire, With elbows wide, fists clenched to prop his chin.

  29. Then he took the cup from the Khalifs hand and drank it off, and no sooner had it settled in his belly than his head forewent his feet [and he fell down senseless].

  30. Pertinent were the queries of Eliphaz the Temanite, "Shall a man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

  31. You reproach us with lack of common sense, as if the belly were its seat.

  32. A bird didn't bring it, and you didn't find it in the belly of a fish.

  33. On the 27th Mr. Wentzel and St. Germain arrived with the two Esquimaux, Tattannoeuck and Hoeootoerock, (the belly and the ear.

  34. I could not, so I lay on my belly and buried my face in the earth--the earth which should be wholesome and life giving, but which stunk with unspeakable things.

  35. Wriggling along on my belly like a snake, I made my way foot by foot.

  36. Wriggling on my belly like a snake, I drew myself toward the smelling carcass, cut off enough with my jackknife to do the section, brought it back, and we ate it.

  37. She had got nearly to the shore, and I could again detect a darker line in the water, which was now not over her knees, when all of a sudden down she went up to her belly in a quicksand, in which she began floundering about in fine style.

  38. Sometimes get down on your belly and eat.

  39. He was saying, 'You goiner get your back and belly beat black and blue.

  40. You see, I does keep some 'tatoes roastin dere in de coals on de hearth en if us belly sets up a growlin twixt meals, us just rakes a 'tatoe out de ashes en breaks it open en makes out on dat.

  41. Was de little minnow dead or 'live when you found him in de belly of de 119th fish?

  42. I had eat so much chicken and hominy my belly couldn't hold it all.

  43. An Elerigmor man ran in between; the little black knife sunk into his belly with a moist plunge, and the blood spouted on the deer-horn haft.

  44. He was lying on his belly on the floor licking up, like a dog, the blood which had fallen from my wounded wrist.

  45. It had been fighting, and manifestly had had a savage opponent, for its throat was torn away, and its belly slit open as if with a savage claw.

  46. Ay, if 'a have no more man's blood in his belly than will sup a flea.

  47. She's quick; the child brags in her belly already; 'tis yours.

  48. Its belly was the colour of a crab's, its back that of a sweet chestnut; and Ch'eng tended it most lovingly, waiting for the time when the magistrate should call upon him for a cricket.

  49. I lay sleeping, having kept my belly empty that I might wake easily.

  50. I was born in the belly of the South Wind," answered Jeremy.

  51. But as he gave way under me, I pitched forward, and, kicking Yussuf Dakmar in the belly with my boot, I fell on him, they falling on me in turn and we all writhing together in one mass on the floor.

  52. May Allah give you a belly ache, if that is where you keep your brains!


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abdomen; back; bag; balloon; beard; bed; bedrock; belly; bevel; billow; body; bottom; bowels; breech; bug; bulge; cap; capital; case; convexity; counter; craw; crop; diaphragm; dilate; distend; exotic; face; font; fundament; gizzard; goggle; groove; gullet; gut; interior; letter; ligature; maw; midriff; nick; paunch; pica; point; pop; pot; pouch; pout; print; roundness; rumen; script; shank; shoulder; stamp; stem; stomach; substratum; swell; tummy; type; underneath; underside