Her five youngest children sat naked in the dust next to her, each thinner than the last, their eyes hollow, their ribs visible, their arms like sticks, their bellies protruding in famine's parody of fullness.

When the heat got hot, she might walk around the house naked or wrapped in a sheet, her belly protruding like a winning watermelon.

Convinced that he had fallen into a vat of "Nip-doodle Beer," he drank to satiety, and when Van Kaathe's Star rose to illuminate the scene, astonished passersby discovered Bengfer's rotund belly protruding above the banks of the cesspool.

Will Sears did pick up a glove, but he was the fat kid at the edge of the team photograph, his belly protruding beneath a tight shirt, his confidence shriveled into the poetry he wrote with a child's hand and an adult's sensitivity.

She was in her late forties, wearing a bright yellow sweat suit, her belly protruding in pregnancy.

He glanced down at his belly protruding from his shirt.