VERB
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make fat or plump
We will plump out that poor starving child -
become round, plump, or shapely
The young woman is fleshing out -
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
How To Use flesh out In A Sentence
- I also used the opportunity to see if I might ask the kids what they liked and disliked about recess; I needed their insights to flesh out my reflections.
- You need to flesh out the bones of your idea a bit more.
- Perhaps, in pointillist fashion, I can flesh out some of the strengths and weaknesses I see in greater detail in a future post. stuart A Blogger’s Case Against Blogs
- Where the continuities between what the folklorists described and earlier elements are substantial enough we can feel justified in using more recent materials to flesh out earlier sources.
- Examples were used to flesh out the skeleton of the argument.
- In this context it is unsurprising that imaginative representations of the threat to capital in the form of visions of digital pirates or of an unenterprising colossus, flesh out the picture.
- Every chapter opens with the colorful evocation of a particular scene, with plenty of contemporary detail to flesh out the text.
- Murray - announced that they were going to flesh out the original by changing dialogue, adding back stories, and having a new, more upbeat ending, Stephen Sondheim got so angry he wrote to the New York Times attacking what he called willful ignorance and arrogance. NPR Topics: News
- They must be prepared to flesh out their strategy with some details.
- Subsequent sections flesh out this theory of prose's stylistic attunement to the 'tonality of bourgeois existence'. The Times Literary Supplement
