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

“Fissures and failures and fleshly idolatries. Covid didn’t produce these crises. It only exposed them.”

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2021

My heart beat thickly in mine ears; The lids may shut out fleshly fears, But still the spirit sees and hears,— Its eyes are lidless, Rosaline!

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell