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
Working from the two newly described mummies, the researchers were able to assemble a complete, fleshy outline of Edmontosaurus annectens.
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
A scowl formed on his broad, fleshy face, and his nostrils flared and quivered.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
Sometimes the folded arms look like matchsticks, sometimes they are fleshier, even relaxed, almost naturalistic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
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
So the labeling here puts the word Muscadet in small print on the back label, and the burgundy-style broad shouldered bottle suggests a fleshier wine.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
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
He had filled out, from the slight boy of their university days to a fleshier, more muscled man, and perhaps because he had filled out, he seemed shorter than she remembered.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
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 Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
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 Fox, Frances Barton
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 Hexamer, F. M.
