flesh
Example Sentences
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Price increases for all the stuff needed to flesh out AI technology are unlikely to deflate anytime soon.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
“At 92, I ran out of gas. The spirit remained eager but the flesh became progressively weaker,” Buffett said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Mice can regenerate the tips of their digits, and humans can sometimes regrow fingertips if the nailbed remains intact after injury, allowing skin, flesh, and bone to regenerate.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
The patient’s sister-in-law told them a nurse practitioner “came to the home a few times to treat J.L.’s flesh infection and “did not treat the open wounds often because they were too infected.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
The disease which was rotting his body had eaten away nail and flesh to the first knuckle.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing flesh
Selection Vocabulary 2, Unit 3
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I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964
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