Sentence examples for porky from inspiring English sources

O'Shaughnessy said: "Despite the odd porky Clegg is doing quite well".

Why are former footballers like Alan Hansen and the one who looks like a porky hairdresser paid more than Jeremy Paxman, the most authoritative broadcast journalist in Britain?

But with the exception of an operatic set-piece in which Mrs Thatcher agrees to grace a party at the Feddens, and Nick, by now spinning like a top, asks her for a dance, Mr Hollinghurst's Tory London is peopled only with caricatures, porky vessels as noisy as they are empty.

With the splash in Wednesday morning's Sun shouting that "Mandy told a porky", an exasperated Mr Campbell was forced to admit that "we've had problems establishing the facts".

The food giant attempted to avert public disquiet over growing obesity, and lawsuits from the porky, by announcing that it would cut the size of snacks and may reduce their fat and sugar content too.

Ahead of Margaret Thatcher in the queue at the corner shop is a porky chap with a mobile, one of those who prospered under Thatcherism.

There's no evidence that making fatty foods more expensive would put people off them; and in Sweden, where advertising to minors is already banned, children are as porky as they are in any comparable country.What's more, it is not obvious that the problem will worsen.

In America, lobbying by hospitals and drug firms soared as Congress debated Mr Obama's health reforms, which is perhaps why the bill that passed in 2010 was so porky.

It wasn't hard to see why the good but somewhat porky folk of Huntington were feeling so hostile about a gobby young Brit breezing in to tell them that – with their city having been officially ranked the most unhealthy in the United States, and almost half its population considered clinically obese – he was on a mission to save them from themselves.

According to Nina, the world wouldn't go round without the odd porky-pie.

I wanted a sandwich that, with quick work, would maintain the porky-pickled-fiery essence of a classic banh mi with easy-to-find ingredients.