How to Use flabby in a Sentence

flabby

adjective
  • I was told my legs were too short, my arms were too flabby.
    — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 31 Jan. 2017
  • The pork ribs went all fall-apart flabby beneath a smart, shiny bark ($13.49 a pound).
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 13 July 2018
  • Ripe red fruits but a good snap of acid keeps in from being too plush and flabby.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Body soft and flabby, right arm and leg raised and flailing, the satyr tosses back his head in a broad grin.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Nothing bounces around, so the sound stays tight and never gets flabby.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 12 June 2011
  • Kenny was large for his age, with a flat, flabby face and a high, whinnying voice.
    — Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Flaked oats softened the body a tad, without reducing it to a flabby wimp.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • These flabby strips of breast are juicy and taste like the chicken on a mid-tier restaurant’s Caesar salad.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But the story there is frustratingly coy, the scenes flabby with excess time, air and heft.
    — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Growing to nearly six feet long and weighing roughly 140 pounds, the flabby creatures are the largest amphibians in the world.
    — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 29 May 2018
  • This version drinks more like an amber ale, but one that stumbles around, too flabby to gain its footing.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • The Mets have benefited also from playing in a league that looks pretty flabby behind the elite teams like the Dodgers, Braves and Cubs.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The trinity: Smoke Shack’s sausage ($2.25 a link) did a Jekyll and Hyde thing, going pale, flabby and smokeless one time, then full-figured, tawny and campfire-smoky the next.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2018
  • Yet despite all the combat and chase scenes, the pace sometimes drags; episodes that feel flabby at 45 minutes might’ve been more captivating at a half hour.
    — TIME, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The lettuce is plentiful, the tomato abysmal (crunchy and pale), the flabby, fatty bacon assuredly not worth the $3.50 upcharge.
    — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • But that flabby and inert expression is not just a stylistic problem.
    — David Roth, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The most effective way to target flabby arms is through exercise.
    — Dr. Melina Jampolis, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Alas, unlike the concise document that inspired it, Joselit’s book is flabby and meandering, even at just 160 pages of text.
    — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
  • His pale face and flabby jowls belie too much time spent under fluorescent office lighting, too little in the gym.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And the vestiges of 19th-century decorum served as an appropriately chafing corset for the flabby plot.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
  • The love of music drives a lot of the product development at Cambridge Audio, producing a classic British sound that is neither flabby nor overblown.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Trump ran against a complacent, biased, flabby, leftist media that had whitewashed the failures of the U.S. political class for decades.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
  • He was disregarded as a potential champion then, mocked for his flabby frame even though his fast hands and skills pointed to a boxer with talent.
    — Steve Douglas, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Still, viewers hear Shirer’s words that Hitler was flabby, ordinary and unimpressive.
    — Alan Zeitlin, Sun Sentinel, 19 June 2024
  • What should have been a master class mixed grill of sausage, pork belly, quail and tenderloin steak for two was a $44 unsightly pile of undercooked fowl, flabby steak, stiff pork and grocery caliber kielbasa.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This is so different from the everyday chickens that one encounters in U.S. supermarkets—and increasingly across the world—that are large and flabby, pale and taste safe but don’t taste like much.
    — Scott Olson, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2017
  • There’s a lot to recommend in both: Orléans is tighter but so light on theme as to feel impersonal, while Altiplano has enough charm to carry it through its flabbier moments, and its bag-building core still feels unique.
    — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
  • Breads are flabby and underbaked, while an order of gulab jamun (picture syrup-swollen doughnut holes) induces sugar shock.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • Three aluminum sculptures from roughly a decade later resemble flabby beings who writhe around above viewers’ heads.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024

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