flab
Example Sentences
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Guy spends his summer transforming his body from flab to fighting trim.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025
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
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
Burning the flab off was going to be difficult.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.