How to Use flab in a Sentence

flab

noun
  • But those moments are sprinkled in among a lot of narrative flab.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
  • Smith captioned some of his favorite entries from fans flaunting their flab-ulous torsos.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
  • My arm-to-chest flab ratio makes a sleeveless top look preposterous.
    — Hannah Morrill, Cosmopolitan, 29 Aug. 2016
  • Dude had the nerve to elbow me aside before wrapping his flab around the fountain and straight-up getting his slurp on.
    — Lori D. Johnson, The Root, 3 June 2018
  • But what's worse, at least for women, is a shift, around menopause, in where this excess flab accumulates.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • As a personal trainer, one of the top complaints my clients have is excess weight and flab in the mid-section.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Americans spend a fortune each year trying to get rid of fat, but the flab often creeps back, despite our best efforts.
    — Sylvia Tara, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2017
  • And at just under two hours, the movie could seriously benefit from cutting some flab.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Maximize your body's flab-burning potential by hitting the gym first thing in the morning.
    — Jessica Girdwain, Marie Claire, 21 Aug. 2013
  • Why some of us have sculpted, toned and visible muscles and some of us carry a little more flab depends on a lot of factors.
    — Sarah Digiulio, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • However, black leather derby shoes and an oversized flab bag hit the on-trend accessories notes, creating a fresh feel.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 3 July 2026
  • And that means women in perimenopause need to consume more protein and lift heavier weights for calories to turn into muscle rather than flab.
    — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Most of that flab comes during the final hour, which serves a purpose in terms of the character's maturation but piles on at least one climax too many.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Most of that flab comes during the final hour, which serves a purpose in terms of the character’s maturation but piles on at least one climax too many.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Everyone’s soft gazes soon hardened as the magnificent baby with so many rolls and love handles proved to be all unsightly flab.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The houses are small, by the current standards of the Zip Code; most of them are an elegant twelve hundred square feet or so—no flab.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The growing clamor for greasy bacon, sausages stuffed with supple lard, and pork chops oozing with deep, scrumptious, oleaginous flab is so strong, in fact, that a problem has developed.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • The show, now down to seven power-contestants, showed some flab as judges and host Tyra Banks verbally tap danced to fill two hours, even snuffing the fun out of lively dance-offs.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
  • That moment by my bedside with my stomach rolls scrunching in on one another, my ass fat spilling out of my underwear, and my arm flab sticking to my torso like wings, felt particularly potent.
    — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 27 Feb. 2018
  • After years of rigorous weight training, plenty of former athletes end their playing days and subsequently let their once steely cores morph into paunches and their rock-hard biceps atrophy into flab.
    — Gabriel Baumgaertner, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The heated, 14-way adjustable bucket seats with SVR headrest embroidery are bolstered just enough to keep the flab in place but aren’t so aggressive as to induce pain.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2017
  • The British bank still has plenty of flab to attack, particularly in its European and investment-banking operations.
    — Nisha Gopalan and Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Anyone can benefit from a personal trainer – a fitness professional giving us personal attention and a personalized plan to fight the flab and increase overall fitness.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Sir Jim Ratcliffe Obviously Adrian Dunbar, repurposing all of his best bits from Line of Duty in the service of cutting flab and waste.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Assuming a healthy diet and exercise regimen, the flab should stay gone — years ago, to showcase the power of CoolSculpting, a representative of the company had only one side of his body treated, Nathan says.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Editing under his regular Mary Ann Bernard pseudonym, Soderbergh always excels at pacing, eliminating any flab in a tight feature that runs just a brisk 89 minutes.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The plan, launched as a dip in oil prices made Saudi Arabia's economic future look precarious, calls for Saudi Arabia to diversify its economy away from energy and cut the economic flab accumulated after living for decades on a diet of petrodollars.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 22 June 2018

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