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How to use flesh in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Flesh means the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat. Example: “The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.”

Examples of flesh by meaning

nounThe soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

  • The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.1918, Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game

nounAnimal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

  • Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.2018 May 8, Raj Patel, Jason W Moore, “How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era”, in The Guardian

nounThe soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

  • The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.2003, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest, page 81

verbTo bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

  • Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.1933, Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel

More sentences with flesh

  • The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.From the entry flat
  • Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.From the entry lappet
  • After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.From the entry proud
  • The model shows the basics, but we still need to flesh out the details.From the entry flesh out
  • How dare you say such a thing to your own flesh and blood?From the entry flesh and blood
  • His starved flesh hung loosely on his once imposing frame.From the entry frame
  • Family history puts flesh on the bones of genealogy.From the entry family history
  • I can't bear snakes. They make my flesh creep.From the entry make someone's flesh creep
  • The sight made my flesh creep.From the entry creep
  • Be a good boy and let your daddy inhabit your flesh.”2024 November 11, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Laszlo's Father” (22:09 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 6…. From the entry meat puppet
  • The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak—especially when you are outnumbered 11 to two.2023 September 7, Lori Borgman, “A level playing field between youth, age”, in Lincoln Journal Star, volume 162, number 250, Lincoln…. From the entry the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
  • More classically proportioned figures could be paired, on the same page, with squatter, lumpier piles of flesh.2021 June 27, Jason Farago, “The Cézanne We’ve Forgotten How to See”, in The New York Times. From the entry lumpy
  • The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry protuberance
  • Melted ice cream comes to mind, as does the flesh of red-blooded animals.2019 December 4, David Pagel, “Review: A photographer’s portraits of Iceland, in all of its epic, impossible beauty”, in Los Angeles…. From the entry red-blooded
  • GCFs talk of my body and flesh and find it to be mutilated.2019, Saoirse Caitlin O'Shea, “Cutting my dick off”, in Culture and Organization, volume 25, number 4, page 281. From the entry GCF
  • Higher layers flesh out rasm; they provide body, specificity, and personality.2017, J. R. Osborn, Letters of Light. From the entry rasm
  • He stroked the supple leather, imagining it molded to Avily's creamy, delicate flesh.2017 March 9, Jodi Redford, Lover Enraptured, Jodi Redford. From the entry plumpage
  • Hammers thudded into its flesh, and warblades bit at its flanks, but it refused to fall.2016, Josh Reynolds, “The Prisoner of the Black Sun”, in Hammerhal & Other Stories: Great Fiction from the Mortal Realms (Warhammer Age of…. From the entry warblade
  • Many apple varieties are mottled or russet, with a rough, dull skin hiding crisp, flavorful flesh.2015, Jennifer A. Jordan, “Remembering Applies”, in Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes & Other Forgotten Foods, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry russet
  • The smell of burnt flesh, which the perilla seeds couldn't wholly mask, pricked my nose.2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 42. From the entry perilla
  • The knife buried itself into the Minotaur's right hand, cutting flesh, bone and tendons alike.2015 August 18, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 3 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN. From the entry shink
  • It caught on the desiccated flesh, bucked, then bit into bone.2015, Tanya Huff, An Ancient Peace. From the entry xenonatomy
  • I par with the best, this is bars in the flesh.2014 September 27, “Fire in the Booth”performed by Stormzy. From the entry par
  • In the peripheral parts blood was in the third coction made flesh.2014 July 10, A.Rupert Hall, The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750, Routledge, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry coction
  • They would shred his flesh and swallow him, bones and all.2014, David Mains, Karen Mains, Tales of the Restoration: Tales of the Kingdom Trilogy Book 3. From the entry aaroo
  • When I dug up the rottened and softened flesh, some weeks later, it had worked.2014, Ian Stephen, “Pike”, in A Book of Death and Fish, Glasgow: Saraband, →ISBN, book 1 (Migrations), page 49. From the entry rottened
  • A spike of white bone peekabooed through the flesh of his wrist and blood spurted.2013, Stan Timmons, Ammon's Horn. From the entry peekaboo
  • Scraping the flesh off the heavy hides and hanging them to dry also taxed her physical strength.2013, Gloria Linkey, Native American Women: Three Who Changed History. From the entry exhaustive
  • We kill our own flesh for spiritual reasons cloaked in patriotism.2013 February 8, Wayne T. Williams, Kissing the Hand of the Dead, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry unbeast
  • This triggered his piquerism, the act of stabbing, slicing flesh for arousal.2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore). From the entry piquerism
  • The thing's flesh jarred like teak, almost denting the Justicar's blade.2013, Paul Kidd, White Plume Mountain, →ISBN. From the entry justicar
  • For the actual wriggling mounds of flesh, Jeremy used another shader, created by Doug Epps, called ‘Blorph’.2013 March 4, “Phil Tippett – Monster Legacy”, in MonsterLegacy.net, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023. From the entry blorph
  • Kazuteru worked quickly, his sword still battle-sharp cutting through the clotted mess of flesh with ease.2013, David Kirk, Child of Vengeance. From the entry battle-sharp
  • Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.2012, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, editors, They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the…. From the entry dicey
  • The tender flesh of the pulchrous girl is torn by vile bonds infernal.2012, Nik Cohn, Need. From the entry flickersome
  • You can use the flesh, the small leaves, even the stalk.2011, Tracey Lawson, A Year in the Village of Eternity, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry zucchina

Meaning of flesh

  1. noun The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
  2. noun The skin of a human or animal.
  3. noun Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

Full definition of flesh

Questions about flesh in a sentence

How do you use flesh in a sentence?
Flesh is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.”
What is a short sentence with flesh?
“The sight made my flesh creep.”
What does flesh mean?
Flesh means the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flesh (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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