Example Sentences

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Ambrogi has since put on a mask, but he refuses to prevent customers from bellying up to the bar in defiance of state rules strictly limiting indoor dining.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2020

My favorite San Francisco poet these days is August Kleinzahler, who often writes about bellying up to a bar.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2019

Two weeks after the Health Department delivered it’s verdict, customers were bellying up to the restaurant’s polished wooden counters and booths as usual on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2017

I’d imagined bellying sails tweaked by rigging-scampering deckhands as the jaunty ship with its cheerful yellow railing plowed through foaming water beneath the brilliant orange bridge towers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2016

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov