flab

Example Sentences

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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

"She had a lot of winter flab and was stuck fast at her hip - there was no going forward or back," said Michael Sehr, a professional animal rescuer from Rhein Necker, according to BBC.

From Fox News • Feb. 26, 2019

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2017

He is a six-foot-five-inch former military policeman, whose weight fluctuates between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and fifty pounds, none of it flab.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

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