FLESHY in a Sentence

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1. He was a large man of about forty with a tanned, fleshy face.
2. A bullet fired by a French sharpshooter hit him in the fleshy part of his leg.
3. But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering.
4. Once a Frenchman Tikhon was trying to capture fired a pistol at him and shot him in the fleshy part of the back.
5. His face was fleshy and pallid, touched with colour only at the thick hanging lobes of his ears and at the wide wings of his nose.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLESHY
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fleshy
 a.  of or relating to or resembling flesh
 a.  usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
Classic Sentence:
1  Pierre, carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
2  A bullet fired by a French sharpshooter hit him in the fleshy part of his leg.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
3  Once a Frenchman Tikhon was trying to capture fired a pistol at him and shot him in the fleshy part of the back.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER V
4  His face was fleshy and pallid, touched with colour only at the thick hanging lobes of his ears and at the wide wings of his nose.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  I had a white companion too, not a bad chap, but rather too fleshy and with the exasperating habit of fainting on the hot hillsides, miles away from the least bit of shade and water.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
6  But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
7  The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
8  Aramis received a ball which passed through his shoulder, and Mousqueton another ball which lodged in the fleshy part which prolongs the lower portion of the loins.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
9  He was a large man of about forty with a tanned, fleshy face.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Four Miss Bürstner's Friend
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