fleshy
IPA: fɫˈɛʃi
adjective
- Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
- (of a person) Having considerable flesh; plump.
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Examples of "fleshy" in Sentences
- "Don't call her fleshy, my dear, that's what really irritated her," remarked the Senator.
- Laviny ain't what you'd call fleshy, but she never could squeeze through that in this world.
- You will enjoy forbidden foods, satisfy your every taste in fleshy pleasures and intellectual self-indulgence.
- The father of the current Batgirl taught her to fight but not to read, and shot her in fleshy parts to enure her to the pain.
- The expression fleshy, so often met with in these pages, is used in speaking of plants when they are succulent and composed of juicy, cellular tissue.
- Mr. _Ray_ takes notice, that those parts of Fowls, which are continually in Action, are esteem'd the best, for which reason he prefers the Legs of tame Fowls, and what we call the Wings in wild Fowl, that is, the fleshy part on the Breast.
- The old woman clutched it at once in her fat, crooked fingers, which recalled the fleshy claws of an owl, quickly slipped it into her sleeve, pondered a little, and as though she had suddenly reached a decision, slapped her thighs with her open hand.
- Most of us can probably immediately recall the fleshy covers -- a pregnant Demi Moore on Vanity Fair, a topless Janet Jackson (foreshadowing, anyone?) on Rolling Stone, the bare and pseudo-tattooed Dixie Chicks on Entertainment Weekly -- that succeeded in generating some buzz.
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