flesh

[fleʃ]

Definition:
1. The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat.
2. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
3. A soft moist part of a fruit.

Use 'flesh' in a sentence:

1. I have even got flesh and clothes.
2. Vegetarians don't eat animal flesh.
3. After escaping from whaling boats 150 years ago, it quickly evolved to triple in size and switched from herbivory to eating flesh.
4. When the eggs hatch the larvae eat the living flesh of the host animal.
5. Scoop out the melon flesh.
6. These points were fleshed out in the later parts of the speech.
7. Other features, however, show experts that Pakicetus is a transitional form between a group of extinct flesh-eating mammals, the mesonychids, and cetaceans.
8. The Party was a thorn in the flesh of his coalition.
9. Evolutionist Charles Darwin first marvelled at flesh — eating plants in the mid-19th century.
10. They thought the birds must have come to peck his flesh.
11. Cut the flesh from the olives and discard the stones.
12. The first thing viewers usually say when they see me in the flesh is 'You're smaller than you look on TV.'
13. Scrape out the flesh of the melon with a spoon.
14. "Children like that feel like young wolves an' food's flesh an' blood to 'em," said Mrs. Sowerby.
15. Remove the seeds and stones and cube the flesh.
16. Banks are quick to demand their pound of flesh when overdrafts run a little over the limit.
17. He has since fleshed out his story.
18. Unusual in the Grotte Chauvet, as the cave is now called in honor of its discoverer, are paintings of many flesh-eating animals.
19. The thorn went deep into the flesh of my arm.
20. The flesh of this kind of fish has exceptional delicacy.
21. "You are not feverish," he said thoughtfully, "and such flesh as you have gained is healthy."
22. He looked as if he were made of flesh instead of ivory or wax.
23. Its flesh has exceptional delicacies.
24. Said she, "but for flesh and blood."
25. The dog's teeth sank into his flesh.
26. Place the fish on a flat surface and sprinkle the flesh with lemon juice and pepper.
27. When did eating butter become a sin, and a little bit of extra flesh unappealing, if not repellent?
28. When bullets hit people, there is a painful feeling of shooting into the flesh.
29. He talked with him for an hour and a half, fleshing out the details of his original five-minute account.
30. Canine teeth are for piercing and killing prey, and tearing flesh.
31. He knew that once he hit the hill, he’d be easy caught up and the wolf’s teeth would be tearing into his flesh.
32. Tigers are flesh-eating animals.
33. The trap had cut deeply into the rabbit's flesh.
34. I grab George's arm and dig my nails into his flesh.
35. The strength of the book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
36. They're manacles that confine the vulnerable and tender flesh of the body.
37. Charles' appeal is best observed in the flesh.
38. Use a genuine fish knife and fork if possible as they are designed to cut through the flesh but not the bones.
39. His fingers closed around the soft flesh of her arm.
40. Listening to the cries was more than flesh and blood could stand.
41. The kid, after all, was his own flesh and blood. He deserved a second chance.
42. It was made of plaster, hard and white and lifeless, bearing no resemblance to human flesh.
43. There may even be some wire or nylon biting into the flesh.
44. It makes my flesh creep to think of it.
45. I'm only flesh and blood, like anyone else.
46. When eating a whole cooked fish, you should never turn it over to get at the flesh on the other side.
47. I was heading on a secret mission that made my flesh crawl.
48. In vice, the attraction of the abnormal creates troubling anxiety: the spirit seems to have become blood and stirs in the flesh like an immanent force.
49. Examples were used to flesh out the skeleton of the argument.
50. This is an attempt to put flesh on what has been a very bare skeleton plan up to now.
51. The flesh around the ankle had swollen up.
52. Use a proper fish knife and fork if possible as they are designed to cut through the flesh but not the bones.