BELLY in a Sentence

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76 example sentences for BELLY, such as:

1. The hungry belly has no ears.
2. Fair words fill not the belly.
3. They bellied up to the bar at the club.
4. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
5. The belly is not filled with fair words.

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 Meanings and Examples of BELLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
belly
 n.  part of human body which extends downward from breast to thighs, and contains bowels; womb
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  Three of them had their heads broken by blows from Boxer's hoofs; another was gored in the belly by a cow's horn; another had his trousers nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  Real knowledge comes out of the whole corpus of the consciousness; out of your belly and your penis as much as out of your brain and mind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  And her belly had lost the fresh, round gleam it had had when she was young, in the days of her German boy, who really loved her physically.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  He put his face down and rubbed his cheek against her belly and against her thighs again and again.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  She felt the glide of his cheek on her thighs and belly and buttocks, and the close brushing of his moustache and his soft thick hair, and her knees began to quiver.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  Connie thought what a pathetic sort of thing a man was, feeble and small-looking, when he was lying on his belly on the big earth.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
7  The sun through the low window sent in a beam that lit up his thighs and slim belly and the erect phallos rising darkish and hot-looking from the little cloud of vivid gold-red hair.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  But at the root of the belly, where the phallos rose thick and arching, it was gold-red, vivid in a little cloud.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  She pulled open his clothing and uncovered his belly, and kissed his navel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
10  Then she laid her cheek on his belly and pressed her arm round his warm, silent loins.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  She softly rubbed her cheek on his belly, and gathered his balls in her hand.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
12  Connie was half listening, and threading in the hair at the root of his belly a few forget-me-nots that she had gathered on the way to the hut.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  In spite of himself, little flames ran over his belly as he heard her say it, and he dropped his head.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  He kissed her belly and her mound of Venus, to kiss close to the womb and the foetus within the womb.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
15  Held close against her, Melanie's baby pressed his pale rosebud mouth greedily to the dark nipple, sucking, gripping tiny fists against the soft flesh like a kitten in the warm fur of its mother's belly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  When the belly is full the mind is among the maids.
2  When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
3  Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets.
4  The belly is not filled with fair words.
5  Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly.
6  Fair words fill not the belly.
7  A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
8  The hungry belly has no ears.
9  His belly is like a cooking pot, Which happens when you eat a lot.
10  He took away half the fabric of an ordinary swimsuit - to reveal the belly button - and a superstar was born.
11  A troupe of authentic belly dancers has been performing in the Cleveland, Ohio area since 2002.
12  Then a throe swept over her and she brought her knees up toward her belly and her eyes squeezed shut.
13  They bellied up to the bar at the club.
14  The company bellied up during the economic recession.
15  The bellies of the starving children began to swell yesterday.