FLESH in a Sentence

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For FLESH, below is one of 187 sentences:
Prissy broke into the room and, flying to Scarlett, clutched her arm in a grip that seemed to pinch out pieces of flesh.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLESH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flesh
 n.  soft tissue of body, mainly muscle and fat; substance; reality; surface or skin of human body; meat of animals
Classic Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
1  But he only squeezed her hand until he drove her rings into the flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Sometimes when holding basins and instruments while Dr. Meade cut out gangrened flesh, Melanie looked very white.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Prissy broke into the room and, flying to Scarlett, clutched her arm in a grip that seemed to pinch out pieces of flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  His stubbly chin sank heavily in loose folds of flesh on his chest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Held close against her, Melanie's baby pressed his pale rosebud mouth greedily to the dark nipple, sucking, gripping tiny fists against the soft flesh like a kitten in the warm fur of its mother's belly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Then she started down the road toward Tara, the heavy basket cutting into her flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  For a brief instant Scarlett saw the long hot days in the cotton field, felt again the terrible ache in her back, the raw bruised flesh of her shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  She wanted to catch him by the shoulders and hug him to her, make him realize that she was flesh and blood and not something he had read or dreamed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  He was thin and sallow faced and his yellow eyes were watery and sunken in creases of loose flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  "Oh, it wasn't so bad, just a flesh wound," he said deprecatingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  She hated the impudent free negroes as much as anyone and her flesh crawled with fury every time she heard their insulting remarks and high-pitched laughter as she went by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  She listened with flesh crawling as Melanie told tales of Tara, making Scarlett a heroine as she faced the invaders and saved Charles' sword, bragging how Scarlett had put out the fire.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Scarlett, looking at the little ex-jockey, planted firmly on his short bowed legs, his gnomish face hard and businesslike, thought: "Whoever let him ride their horses didn't care much for horse flesh."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  The doctor says it's just a flesh wound, though he did lose a tremendous lot of blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  African hunting dogs will tear at the flesh of their victim until it is weak.
2  Despite the large amount of blood, it was only a flesh wound.
3  The knife cut the flesh of his arm.
4  The weapon tore into his flesh.
5  What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
6  You need to flesh out the bones of your idea a bit more.
7  The thorn went deep into the flesh of my hand.
8  The kid, after all, was his own flesh and blood.
9  I was heading on a secret mission that made my flesh crawl.
10  An apple core is the part of an apple left after the flesh has been eaten.
11  I've seen her perform on television, but never in the flesh.
12  Remove the skin and flake the flesh.
13  The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
14  The spirit is willing but the flesh is.
15  His glassy stare made my flesh creep.