flab

Example Sentences

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Whatever you wanted out of yoga—inner peace, less flab around the middle, a bit of calm before a big meeting with your boss—was totally fine with her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Here again we see skin and muscle and flab, the tender spots of the young, the frailty of the elderly.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021

He is a six-foot-five-inch former military policeman, whose weight fluctuates between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and fifty pounds, none of it flab.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

For me, a far bigger problem is that it just doesn’t have much musical muscle tone, and a lot of flab.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2016

Burning the flab off was going to be difficult.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand