fleshiness

Example Sentences

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Because of their size and fleshiness, these water lilies are notoriously difficult to collect, preserve, and study.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 4, 2022

She had always celebrated the bodies of women – bruised, contorted or mutilated – in portraits that owed something to Lucian Freud’s images of female fleshiness.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

This surreal, disembodied effect heightens the impression of an abstract fleshiness, as if the nose has become a separate entity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2016

Professional players of a certain fleshiness have long been embraced, sultans of Sansabelt with nicknames like the Golden Bear, the Walrus and Lumpy, who brought an Everyman appeal to what can be an elitist sport.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2013

His father comes to the doorway, heavy, especially in the sagging fleshiness of his face and neck.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes