flabby

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

In a speech last week Sir Keir Starmer promised to make the "flabby" state more efficient and cut bureaucracy.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

They are short, tall, flabby, lean, clean-shaven, bearded, bald and pony-tailed.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024

When we need the churning dread of an intimate tale of generational trauma, “The Marsh King’s Daughter” goes formulaic, and when we’re primed for exploitation sweats, it gets flabby.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

On his flabby shoulders he had wispy blond hairs that flowed in the wind like corn silk.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos