fleshy
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Dark pigment pushed into claw-like scratches feels like a peek into a figure’s spiritual void; fleshy hues bring out nicks and lines that enliven characters’ faces—some pained, others contemplative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
At Santa Croce, the world's largest Franciscan church, Giotto's frescoes bear witness to his innovations, including modern spatial techniques such as foreshortening and human figures imparted with a fleshy weightiness.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
They discovered a continuous feature running along the center of the back that started as a fleshy crest over the neck and torso.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
Its hoodlike structure is called a spathe, which envelopes a bulb-shaped structure called the spadix, a fleshy knob dotted by dozens of tiny, petal-less yellow flowers.
From Salon ● May 27, 2025
Strawberries like fleshy hearts, mounded in little baskets.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Juliènas will greet you with its fleshier expression, while Chénas will wrap your palate in silk.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
Over the course of their domestication, the modern bananas available in supermarkets lost their seeds and became fleshier and sweeter.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 14, 2022
He said organic farming produced fleshier wines, while biodynamics gave “more pixels.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
At age 78, he is fleshier and far more affable, with rimless glasses sliding down his nose and receding white hair combed straight back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
I’m definitely fleshier than the average girl he dates and have stretch marks—my tiger stripes—where my thighs and butt expanded quicker than my skin was ready for, but it can’t be that bad, can it?
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
One of Ingalls’s fleshiest evocations of such zero-sum power plays is captured in the title of her 1986 novella collection, “The Pearlkillers.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Steel Hour's A Drum Is a Woman, was Jazzman Duke Ellington's most ambitious project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the seedlings are three inches high, select those which have the thickest, fleshiest, and most numerous stems, and pot them.
From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by F. M. Hexamer
The doctors, when they came to look him over, found the print of a perfect circle on the fleshiest part of his anatomy.
From The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
So she reached over and pinched him with all the power of strong young fingers on the very fleshiest part of his arm.
From The Heart of Arethusa by Frances Barton Fox
