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fleshy

[flesh-ee] / ˈflɛʃ i /


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At Santa Croce, the world's largest Franciscan church, Giotto's frescoes bear witness to his innovations, including modern spatial techniques such as foreshortening and human figures imparted with a fleshy weightiness.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

We see the folds best in raking light—directed at the painting from an acute angle—and the fleshy effect was created by the painter zigzagging the wax pigment across her neck in layers.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

Unlike the forefoot, which makes contact with the ground only through its hooves, the hind feet also included a fleshy heel pad behind the hooves.

From Science Daily Nov. 30, 2025

The Oscar they won for the fleshy organic work they did with Brendan Fraser on “The Whale” is nowhere to be seen.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2025

Her green rhinestone-studded glasses slipped down her fleshy nose as she grappled with a tall triangular package and a stuffed shopping bag.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

With 12 books of poetry and prose under his belt, he is finally out with a fleshier memoir.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2023

Over the course of their domestication, the modern bananas available in supermarkets lost their seeds and became fleshier and sweeter.

From Science Magazine Oct. 14, 2022

This wine displays the mineral backbone familiar to fans of muscadet, but the vintage gives it a riper, fleshier frame than usual.

From Washington Post Sep. 24, 2021

He said organic farming produced fleshier wines, while biodynamics gave “more pixels.”

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2018

I’m definitely fleshier than the average girl he dates and have stretch marks—my tiger stripes—where my thighs and butt expanded quicker than my skin was ready for, but it can’t be that bad, can it?

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

One of Ingalls’s fleshiest evocations of such zero-sum power plays is captured in the title of her 1986 novella collection, “The Pearlkillers.”

From The New Yorker Feb. 25, 2019

Steel Hour's A Drum Is a Woman, was Jazzman Duke Ellington's most ambitious project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

So she reached over and pinched him with all the power of strong young fingers on the very fleshiest part of his arm.

From The Heart of Arethusa by Frances Barton Fox

When the seedlings are three inches high, select those which have the thickest, fleshiest, and most numerous stems, and pot them.

From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by F. M. Hexamer

The doctors, when they came to look him over, found the print of a perfect circle on the fleshiest part of his anatomy.

From The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly




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