How to Use flesh in a Sentence

flesh

1 of 2 noun
  • Place the edge of the cup between the flesh and the skin.
    Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The cat gets close to try the flesh; a bomb pounds the street.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Below the pith is the flesh of the lemon, which contains the juice and seeds.
    Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But the case, like so many others, fell by the flesh of the spud.
    Ali Watkins, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Scoop the flesh from the skin and puree in a food processor.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The door opened and there, in the flesh, was Paul McCartney.
    Patrick Stewart, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The skin protects the flesh and prevents it from sticking to the grill.
    Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023
  • And in 2023, for the first time, Schreiber showed up to camp, in the flesh, and appeared on the show himself.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Does the gourd look big enough to provide enough flesh and seeds to be worth it?
    Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
  • What’s the name of the flower that can take years to bloom and smells like rotting flesh?
    CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The blast ripped through her right leg — shredding flesh and bone.
    Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Discard the pit and remove the flesh with a spoon or finger.
    Ethel G. Hofman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The plot, while nicely sketched, is secondary in this play to the sheer wicked pleasures of the flesh.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In the flesh or not, Rushdie will outlive all the devil’s tools who have tried to kill him.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Turns out the crabs swarmed the pig’s body, removed most of its flesh, and moved some of the bones as far as 60 feet away.
    Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The cup will act like a spoon, helping to separate the flesh cleanly from the skin.
    Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Scrape the baked potato flesh from its skin (discard the skin); stir that into the bowl, to form a soup.
    Nancy Baggett, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The grapes were so pulpy that the press couldn’t separate the skins and flesh from the juice, which sprayed onto the walls and ceiling.
    Alex Mayyasi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The German name, Steinpilz (stone mushroom) refers to the species’ firm flesh.
    Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 11 May 2023
  • Only the tiny oval is long gone, swallowed with a clump of sweet flesh, and sailing the high seas of your gut.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 22 July 2023
  • The title and the form of this painting’s posture leave echoes of flesh and desire hanging in the air.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • Remove squash from oven, and scrape out flesh into a blender; add ½ cup of the chicken stock.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
  • It was all served atop roasted marble potatoes, halved so the starchy flesh could soak up the rich juices from the meat.
    Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Evenly season the flesh of the salmon with the spices, pressing gently to adhere.
    Lynda Balslev, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • In the heyday of these venues, crowds flocked in, drawn by the celebrity connection and the chance to glimpse their favorite stars in the flesh.
    Tiffany Tse, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Rub the flesh of each half of an avocado with lemon or lime juice.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The folds of flesh and connective tissue in the video looked foreign compared to what lay in front of me.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Jan. 2024
  • These are fish that eat large amounts of deep-water shrimp, and the pigment from the crustaceans builds up in the swordfish’s flesh over time.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2023
  • It's extracted from grinding the flesh of the olive fruit then straining the liquid that comes out.
    Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, squirt some lemon or lime juice on the flesh, wrap it in plastic wrap, and eat it within two days.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 3 Mar. 2023
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flesh

2 of 2 verb
  • So was the show’s failure last season to flesh out the lives of its Black players.
    Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2021
  • And then Susanne Bier wanted to flesh out the murder scene.
    New York Times, 30 Nov. 2020
  • This has since been fleshed out to Chicago and Singapore, which is home to six of the eight suites.
    Chadner Navarro, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2020
  • In 2020, Freese pushed Casale to flesh out their jam into a complete song.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2021
  • Over the course of 2017, Trump would flesh out these instincts in a series of set-piece speeches.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked him to flesh out Nirvana’s sound on guitar, and Smear toured with the band for eight months.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Each gives him new ways to flesh out his character through the season.
    Karen Idelson, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • The concerto gave me a chance to really flesh out some of the inner melodies.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge joined the writing team on the film to flesh out the female characters in the movie.
    Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • From there, Tankian would write lyrics, while Odadjian and Dolmayan would flesh out the rhythm section.
    Jeremy Gordon, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The author has a gift for set pieces that flesh out his nostalgic world-building.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • And to be able to flesh out these characters, and to have humanity.
    Anhar Karim, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • To add new depth to its characters, flesh out more of the world, and raise the stakes in a way that feels grand and epic without being silly.
    Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 2 Mar. 2022
  • There have been attempts to nudge Rosaline out of the margins, to flesh a person out of a ghostly image.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The bipartisan group and White House aides have been huddling in recent weeks to flesh out the plan’s details.
    Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021
  • One way is to flesh out the indirect evidence of market share.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 29 June 2021
  • The emails flesh out how Trump's team was trying to press state legislatures to overturn the results.
    Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen and Dan Merica, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Then Poitras and her subject return to Barbara for the last chapter, and flesh her story out in the larger context of Nan’s then and now.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Drones equipped with radar and laser scanners can help flesh out a three-dimensional map of the location.
    Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2020
  • But that is an anecdotal assessment and will require more time to flesh out.
    Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Each proposal receives $3 million to flesh out their concept over the next year.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 13 Feb. 2020
  • His response only bolsters the case for calling witnesses to flesh out what Trump knew and when.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Which is why the scientists used the Maldives to flesh out their theory of atoll formation.
    Alexandra Witze, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Some rumors suggested that Marvel wanted to flesh out the story and add more cameos.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The current schedule calls for the plan to be fleshed out while the environmental report is being done.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • But real-world data will be needed to confirm and flesh out those lab findings.
    al, 24 Dec. 2021
  • And Google continues to flesh out the product with so many other features today.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022
  • In the time off taken to flesh out that onscreen relationship, the pandemic hit.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • How did the actors flesh out the romantic aspects of Dana and Charles’ relationship?
    Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • But the series came back strong for its third season, fleshing out the story in some fresh, fascinating ways.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 June 2020

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