Example Sentences

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At last, after what seemed a long time – it might have been five seconds, I dare say – he sagged flabbily to his knees.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

He did not look pleased when the Knights entered flabbily.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2014

This time the author of Look Back in Anger has no brilliantly disgruntled intellectual for a hero, but a flabbily disintegrating vaudevillian.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such macho rhetoric often goes flabbily vague at the critical moment: Does "what has to be done" mean overthrowing Castro?

From Time Magazine Archive

The skin shook flabbily when I moved, as if there wasn't a muscle in it, and it was covered with a short, thick stubble of black hair.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath