FLABBY in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for FLABBY, such as:

1. During the second week Olaf's powerful legs were flabby.
2. Despite her flabby resolves she had not yet learned bridge.
3. If they become too fat, that is a flaw and they are called flabby.
4. His muscles were wasting away, and what were left were soft and flabby.
5. I have spoken of the impression of flabbiness which this man Blessington conveyed.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLABBY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flabby
 a.  weak; lacking firmness
Classic Sentence:
1  Despite her flabby resolves she had not yet learned bridge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I'm a hawk; a tiny leashed hawk, pecked to death by these large, white, flabby, wormy hens.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  During the second week Olaf's powerful legs were flabby.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  His muscles were wasting away, and what were left were soft and flabby.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
5  It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
6  I think it was over the kitchen, because a warm greasy smell appeared to come up through the chinks in the floor, and there was a flabby perspiration on the walls.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
7  But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
9  His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV
10  When he released him Prince Andrew saw that Kutuzov's flabby lips were trembling and that tears were in his eyes.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
11  He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Her skin, so brown and hardened, had not that look of flabbiness, as if the sap beneath it had been secretly drawn away.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
13  I have spoken of the impression of flabbiness which this man Blessington conveyed.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
Example Sentence:
1  If they become too fat, that is a flaw and they are called flabby.