flabby

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

In a speech last week Sir Keir Starmer promised to make the "flabby" state more efficient and cut bureaucracy.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

There’s no method here that will render it crispy and browned, and no one wants to cut through flabby chicken skin.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2025

At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

I put a lot of work into that imagined body, white as a burdock root, flabby as pork fat.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood