How to Use flabby in a Sentence

flabby

adjective
  • Ripe red fruits but a good snap of acid keeps in from being too plush and flabby.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Looking to get rid of love handles or flabby thighs?
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Nothing bounces around, so the sound stays tight and never gets flabby.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 12 June 2011
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Embraced tenderly by her flabby yet tenacious arms, all was good.
    — Nadine Hack, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In the first season, when jokes went flabby or the writers didn’t know how to finish a skit, a fake cow was dropped from the rafters.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • But the story there is frustratingly coy, the scenes flabby with excess time, air and heft.
    — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Earlier suitors were sometimes flabby; the crew was not always in tip-top shape.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • But that flabby and inert expression is not just a stylistic problem.
    — David Roth, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • The most effective way to target flabby arms is through exercise.
    — Dr. Melina Jampolis, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Three aluminum sculptures from roughly a decade later resemble flabby beings who writhe around above viewers’ heads.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Napoleon’s pot roast is unquestionably rich without tasting flabby or unbalanced.
    — Henri Hollis, ajc, 7 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 mattress first, a mattress from time immemorial that proved to be unbelievably heavy, flabby, and seemingly filled with sand.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • For the even slightly flabby, a leather shirt accentuates imperfections.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Still, viewers hear Shirer’s words that Hitler was flabby, ordinary and unimpressive.
    — Alan Zeitlin, Sun Sentinel, 19 June 2024
  • 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 authentic Christmas dinner had consisted of dry turkey, lumpy mashed potatoes, and flabby spears of asparagus.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Was stripping nude in front of complete strangers and contorting my white, flabby body under fluorescent lighting really necessary to do so?
    — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The long and flabby performance was, at the least, a squandered political opportunity.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
  • 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

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