belly out

Example Sentences

• "[…] the Shape of the Hive is recommended to be like an Egg, with one End cut off, as People order it when they are about to eat it, it may consist of twelve Straw-Wreaths or Rowls, according to the Bigness of it; the three first Rowls of one Magnitude, and about a Foot or somewhat more in Diameter, the four next above them larger, bellying out a little each beyond his Fellow, that the Combs may be more firmly fastned […]"
• "The most considerable and most elevated parts consist of six columns, the capitals of three of which belly out, while those of the three others, which are parallel to them, are guttered […]"
• "In a kind of stupor I watched all hands take to the rigging, and slowly but surely she came round to the wind; the sails fluttered, and then bellied out as the wind came into them."
• "1944, Caleb Milne, “I Dream of the Day...” Letters from Caleb Milne, Africa, 1942-1943, Woodstock, NY: Van Rees Press, Chapter 4, p. 21, Now and then the street bellies out into an ancient lime-stone square filled with fiacres and peddlers, pausing in the loud sunshine."
• "1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Happiness” (written in 1791), lines 30-31, The scene is changed and Fortune’s gale Shall belly out each prosperous sail."
• "Avoid a broadcloth shirt, in the shape of a shapeless garment with sleeves (one of the new fashions). It looks colic-y, with the wind bellying it out in all directions as you walk along."