fleshy
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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
Stick shifts are also slower than their auto-shifted counterparts from 0-60 mph—due to the fleshy, fallible widgets sitting in the driver’s seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
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
The Oscar they won for the fleshy organic work they did with Brendan Fraser on “The Whale” is nowhere to be seen.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
It was not the fleshy, scarred hand of Grandfather.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
This wine displays the mineral backbone familiar to fans of muscadet, but the vintage gives it a riper, fleshier frame than usual.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021
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
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
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
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
