fleshy

Example Sentences

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Fleshy oyster mushrooms crisp up nicely without the help of oil or salt in a kebab perked up, like the others, with pickled onions.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

Fleshy and agile, Hensley’s Oscar is aquiver with his own neurosis: he’s a faith-seeker, but, in the end, he can’t believe in himself, so how can he believe in love with Charity?

From The New Yorker • Nov. 27, 2016

Fleshy fruit include the familiar berries, peaches, apples, grapes, and tomatoes.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Fleshy and obscene, Shor pulled in manly types—Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason; sports stars like Joe DiMaggio; sportswriters like Jimmy Cannon; even Chief Justice Earl Warren—to join his nocturnal party.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2011

“He was in late middle age. Fleshy and smooth-skinned. Silver-gray hair. Dressed in expensive clothes, and with traces of a heavy scent around him.”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman