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

They are short, tall, flabby, lean, clean-shaven, bearded, bald and pony-tailed.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024

She looked a little like a slug herself, flabby and limp, leaning on the table with her face buried in her hands.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson