flab

Example Sentences

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Whatever you wanted out of yoga—inner peace, less flab around the middle, a bit of calm before a big meeting with your boss—was totally fine with her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

And this is why his movies have one of the lowest B.M.I.s in the action business: He cuts the flab.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021

The houses are small, by the current standards of the Zip Code; most of them are an elegant twelve hundred square feet or so—no flab.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019

The wine is ample but light on its feet, without an ounce of flab.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2017

And this dude, decked out in layer upon layer of flab, a thin undershirt and a pair of tight red polyester pants, poured himself into the alley between the door and the desk.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx