fleshly
Example Sentences
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In early Christianity, spiritual warfare meant one was to resist the Devil by engaging in forms of ascetic behavior, mastering fleshly desires, and cultivating Christian virtues like humility, self-control, and love of enemies.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024
Two weeks prior to “Subspace Rhapsody,” they aired a crossover with the animated spinoff “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” in which cartoon characters became flesh and fleshly characters cartoons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
“There were some fleshly remains and the odor was so foul,” the villager said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
But a pandemic re-corporealizes us all, re-rooting everyone, including men, in fleshly reality in all its precarity.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
Said I, 'Wheeling a pair o' lies, one stony, one fleshly, may be work, and hard work, but honest work 'tis not.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
