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

The series has been described as a political thriller, but it’s got so much flab and filler that it seems ideologically opposed to the very idea of suspense.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Here again we see skin and muscle and flab, the tender spots of the young, the frailty of the elderly.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 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

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