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
• In fact, a sequel is sometimes the perfect chance for filmmakers to flesh out their worlds in interesting ways, or actors to return to classic parts with a new perspective.
  — Jacob Linden, Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024