flabby

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

In a speech last week Sir Keir Starmer promised to make the "flabby" state more efficient and cut bureaucracy.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

There’s no method here that will render it crispy and browned, and no one wants to cut through flabby chicken skin.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2025

At every life stage, it has stretched a system that was often too small to accommodate it, leaving it somewhat flabby and misshapen in its wake.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2024

He raised his flabby chins vaguely toward me and shrugged his shoulders.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green