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Example sentences for "flabby"

Lexicographically close words:
fjords; flaar; flaars; flabbergasted; flabbiness; flaccid; flaccidity; flag; flagella; flagellant
  1. Especially on leaving the water are the defects revealed, although water is a powerful aid to flabby skin.

  2. She crushed it and finally made of it nothing but a little green, flabby lump which no longer moved or spoke.

  3. Knees all flabby and face all twitchy when those bullets began whispering and pattering.

  4. Although he had calmed considerably his lashless eyes gleamed viciously, and his flabby face wore an expression which boded ill for the object of his rage, should that unfortunate ever come within the range of his power.

  5. But while John was big with the weight of muscle and frame, Lablache was flabby with fat.

  6. A woman with a flabby pale face and disordered gray hair sprang towards her and took her in her arms with a divine charity.

  7. He is a wealthy pluralist; in addition to which he earns a large income as a writer of sentimental books, that immensely tickle the flabby souls of "respectable" Christians.

  8. Weak and flabby and silly books tend to make weak and flabby and silly brains.

  9. His lower lip, thick and blue and loose, protruded with flabby insistence beyond its mate, which was short and straight.

  10. He turned on his heel and left the Colonel standing there, a flush mounting to his flabby cheek.

  11. He had a large head, with small eyes, flabby squat nose, and prominent muzzle filled with sharp-pointed teeth, as if in imitation of a crocodile.

  12. The sallow, foreign face was yellow white, the plump hands were gripped, as if in some past convulsive agony, above her head, and this same muscular rigidity seemed to underlie incongruously every formless line of the flabby body.

  13. A very fat and flabby woman was upon the stage as I entered, and the smoky air quivered to her raucous singsong and the jangle of a battered piano.

  14. Ah, that's well," he said, rubbing his flabby hands together.

  15. Peter Thompson held out a flabby and cold hand.

  16. He had the Zar by the throat, his fingers twisting in the flabby flesh.

  17. It was not the occasion on which a flabby bully should have thus addressed him.

  18. He was in no violent mood, as yet, but he was not, as has been said, one for a big flabby brute to thus annoy.

  19. Besides, when Tom said he had got flabby for want of it, I noticed that he was not looking well.

  20. Come to that, it's what I want myself; I've got quite flabby from being away from it so long.

  21. The years had not yet given his features the flabby look which sooner or later mars most Jewish faces, and the fine formation of his brow round about the eyes gave him an expression of countenance that inspired confidence.

  22. She could not cry for mercy to the flabby coward her husband, who, as usual, slunk from bearing the responsibility of his own acts, and ran away from the danger of personal appeal from those whom he wronged.

  23. With a strong master Wolsey would have won; with a flabby sensualist as his stalking-horse he was bound to lose, unless he remained always at his side.

  24. Mistrust him when you see him gliding by in his shabby old cassock, with the flabby wrinkled face of a devout old maid.

  25. Dorothea ran up to her father in a spirit of unrestrained jubilation, threw her arms around his bulky body, and kissed him on his flabby cheek.

  26. The thing about it all that gave her a wonderful feeling of relief, and at the same time made her morally flabby and carried her away, was the passion of his will and the undaunted assurance of his feelings.

  27. It is used externally, when powdered, to promote the contraction of flabby ulcers.

  28. Veal will not keep so long as an older meat, especially in hot or damp weather: when going, the fat becomes soft and moist, the meat flabby and spotted, and somewhat porous like sponge.

  29. His mouth did not open, his lower jaw merely sagged away from his face, exposing his tongue lying thick and flabby upon yellow teeth.

  30. His mouth sagged open and the lolling, flabby tongue drooled thickly.

  31. His jaw wagged weakly, his flabby lips sagged open, exposing the jagged, brown teeth, and he passed his hand uncertainly across his eyes.

  32. He paused to break off a flabby white piece large enough to feed him for many days.

  33. It was sticking in the flabby trunk of a toadstool.

  34. The swarthy, fat, foolish face was pale and flabby and aged from the night's adventure and the sleepless hours following.

  35. Tears had gushed upon the flabby cheeks; he mumbled his lips for a minute, unable to speak.

  36. Wet, sodden, or flabby meat with jellylike fat, a strong putrid odor, and alkaline reaction should be avoided.

  37. Stale poultry is flabby and shows a bluish color; it becomes green over the crop and abdomen, and the skin is already broken or easily pulled apart in handling.

  38. The dog's little black nose wrinkled and his lips twitched, showing his sharp white teeth: he was not going to be touched by Angelina's flabby wax hand if he could help it!

  39. But of course it would have been a little too absurd if Ethelinda had taken advice from a flat-headed twopenny doll and a flabby jester from the Lowther Arcade.

  40. But if ever I feel flabby or lazy or tired of hard things I switch my mind on to her.

  41. Do you think I want to make you a flabby thing hanging on to my apron strings all the time?


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flabby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.