fleshiness

Example Sentences

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Because of their size and fleshiness, these water lilies are notoriously difficult to collect, preserve, and study.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 4, 2022

It was not lean, but it was well toned, without a lot of the fleshiness or sweet fruit often associated with Napa cabernets.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

She had always celebrated the bodies of women – bruised, contorted or mutilated – in portraits that owed something to Lucian Freud’s images of female fleshiness.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

This surreal, disembodied effect heightens the impression of an abstract fleshiness, as if the nose has become a separate entity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2016

Yet for all the splendor of his garb, he remained an ugly man, big-boned and slopeshouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggested that in later life he would run to fat.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin