flesh

Dramatizations of the several lives studied put figurative flesh on the petrified bodies of the volcano victims, and those who escaped such a fate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Fable predicted the plants would smell like “rotten flesh from Minecraft.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

They spray confetti into the audience to punctuate their biggest songs, and add an honorary fifth member, Ryan Malcolm, to flesh out their sound with swells of keyboard and additional rhythm guitar.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Perhaps he’ll flesh out his views a bit more, but don’t count on a major reveal.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Christopher caught a crab and they ate it raw, slicing the shell with the glamry blade, the flesh sweet and cool from the sea.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

That earlier book floated an eye-catching thesis that Mr. Mandelbaum now fleshes out fully: that U.S. foreign policy is, indeed, distinctive, being “unusually ideological, unusually economic, and unusually democratic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Christine Cover Ferro‘s costumes situate the jockeying courtiers in a vintage 20th century underworld. Projection designer Nick Santiago fleshes out Angela Balogh Calin‘s stripped down scenic design, which combines Elizabethan simplicity with modern rough edges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

The board fleshes out detailed regulations based on laws enacted by the Legislature, with input from the public and state scientists.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

Treasury Department fleshes out the minute details in President Biden’s signature climate bill.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system, where my sons are being educated, fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

By the 2000s, some franchises offered games that fleshed out or complemented the worlds depicted on the silver screen.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

Professors Carlos Manuel Vázquez and Steve Vladeck fleshed out the theory in an important 2013 article that has only grown more relevant since.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

Plans to restrict the companies’ activities in the housing market have been fleshed out in a bill that was recently passed by the Senate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Akhnaten is revealed in episodes of his life that are not fleshed out but presented as ritual, including the ravishing love duet with his wife, Nefertiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

Her figure faults were gone, the too bony elbow having fleshed out nicely; the opposite pudgy wrist could not have been trimmer.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

The luxurious hotel complex was proposed by Washington and Tehran, and their Pakistani and Qatari mediators, for the negotiations aimed at fleshing out their preliminary agreement on ending nearly four months of war.

From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026

We’re all for peace-making, but this idea could use some fleshing out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

If Hancock spent more time fleshing out his characters, perhaps the rapidly paced events of the movie’s first act wouldn’t cause such whiplash.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025

Such playful bickering characterized the collaboration Gascón and Audiard developed over the yearlong process of fleshing out Emilia and her story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

Anyone who tries to occupy this ‘best of both worlds’ position needs to face up to a further challenge, that of fleshing out the notion that nature pushes back.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton