Explore Flabby through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like soft or flaccid. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Flabby in a sentence
Flabby meaning
- Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
- Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
- overwrought.
Using Flabby
- The main meaning on this page is: Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid. | Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness. | overwrought.
- Useful related words include: soft, flaccid, unfit.
- In the example corpus, flabby often appears in combinations such as: flabby and.
Context around Flabby
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flabby
- In this selection, "flabby" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pale, little, look, feline, body and emaciated stand out and add context to how "flabby" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ask look flabby u s and carried her flabby emaciated daughter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flabby" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flabby
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After much struggling, it entered and the once flabby body was on ‘’, Kim K never lies. (16 words)
Flabby feline Mitzi shocked vets when she tipped the scales at 16lbs - almost double her recommended weight. (17 words)
On the flip side, low acid levels can be a concern which make the wine taste "flabby" and dull. (19 words)
This I have done for several months, with the result that my stomach has come to resemble dough that has been left to rise for too long: pale, flabby and generally difficult to deal with. (35 words)
Today sugar is usually added in order to boost the alcohol levels of flabby, unripe wines rather than for sweetness, although a degree of chaptalization is permitted in the wines of many countries. (33 words)
Keller defended the "more reader-friendly" move indicating that in cutting out the "flabby or redundant prose in longer pieces" the reduction would make for a better paper. (28 words)
Example sentences (9)
This I have done for several months, with the result that my stomach has come to resemble dough that has been left to rise for too long: pale, flabby and generally difficult to deal with.
Flabby feline Mitzi shocked vets when she tipped the scales at 16lbs - almost double her recommended weight.
Further details include the physical frame of the prisoners and calibre of their necks, such as, 'very heavy body, ordinary neck, wirey, very thin neck, little flabby'.
That figure makes AirAsia’s 3.1 cents per ASK look flabby (U.S. full service carriers average about 7 cents).
After much struggling, it entered and the once flabby body was on ‘’, Kim K never lies.
They are almost the width of my thumb,” said Zainab,as she carried her flabby, emaciated daughter with one palm.
Keller defended the "more reader-friendly" move indicating that in cutting out the "flabby or redundant prose in longer pieces" the reduction would make for a better paper.
On the flip side, low acid levels can be a concern which make the wine taste "flabby" and dull.
Today sugar is usually added in order to boost the alcohol levels of flabby, unripe wines rather than for sweetness, although a degree of chaptalization is permitted in the wines of many countries.
Common combinations with flabby
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: