55 examples of flaccid in sentences

Limp, flaccid, flabby, flimsy. List, roll, catalogue, register, roster, schedule, inventory.

Fabricate, fabulous, facetious, factitious, fallacious, fallible, fastidious, fatuous, feasible, feculence, fecundity, felicitous, felonious, fetid, feudal, fiducial, filament, filtrate, finesse, flaccid, flagitious, floriculture, florid, fluctuate, foible, forfeiture, fortuitous, fractious, franchise, frangible, frontal, froward, furtive.

Whose flaccid sails in forms fantastic droop, Bright'ning the gloom where thick the forests stoop; Only in the editions 1815 to 1832.]

Near the great porch on either side of the bishop's path were ranged the seminarists, in cassocks of black with a dark blue or red hooddepressing looking youths with flaccid faces and an unhealthy eye.

It was easy to see that he was much depressedhis usually rosy cheeks hung flaccid, his mustachios drooped limply, his little black eyes were suffused and needed frequent wipinga service performed by a hand that was none too steady.

His lips were quivering, his fat cheeks hanging flaccid, as he handed the paper back.

It seemed to her that all the power of her vital youth vanished and left only limp and flaccid weakness.

I read the other day of the truck system being "rampant" in a certain district; and every day we may meet with similar echoes of familiar words which betray the flaccid condition of the writer's mind drooping under the labour of expression.

"It really ought to pay, Uncle," declared Patsy, somewhat nettled by this flaccid reception of her pet scheme.

One yawn from such an audience meant his professional damnationhe knew that; every second must break like froth in a wine glass; an instant's perplexity, a slackening of the tension, and those flaccid intellects would relax into native inertia.

After that event every new-born imp wore a flaccid, invertebrate, despondent tailthe very last insignium of ignobility.

The flaccid abdomen flinched in and puffed out, and the snout wabbled to and fro.

Perhaps the weak, flaccid wretch had some stimulant in her pale life to keep her up,some love or hope, it might be, or urgent need.

There are deep wrinkles upon his forehead; and the eyes, half obscured by the bushy grey eyebrows, are bloodshot and sunken; the jaws hollow and spectral, and his lower lip drooping and flaccid.

I have found dulness to quicken into sentiment in a thin ether, as water, though not very hot, boils in a receiver partly exhausted; and heads, in appearance empty, have teemed with notions upon rising ground, as the flaccid sides of a football would have swelled out into stiffness and extension.

The battle went on for hours; it exhausted her; it undid all the good effects of sun and sea, and left her flaccid, pale.

As though the pulps had understood her complaints, they had fallen on the sandy bottom, flaccid, inert, breathing through their funnels.

But she began to need help, possibly a lancet, possibly a pocket-pistol, possibly hot blankets, possibly somebody to knead these lifeless lungs and pommel this flaccid body, until circulation was restored.

It is a very mild restringent, and may, in some degree, be serviceable in disorders proceeding from a weak flaccid state of the viscera: the virtue which it has been most celebrated for, it has little title to, that of curing hernias.

These qualities point out its use in a flaccid state of the vessels, and a sluggishness of the juices: the natural evacuations are in some measure restrained or promoted by it, where the excess or deficiency proceeds from this cause.

At last, what might have seemed a coat thrown carelessly on the ground met his eye, but presently he became aware of a white, rigid, aimlessly-clinched hand protruding from the flaccid sleeve; mingled with it in some absurd way and half hidden by the grass, lay what might have been a pair of cast-off trousers but for two rigid boots that pointed in opposite angles to the sky.

We could see the flaccid water-weeds swaying languidly with the current far below, and now and then a shoal of tiny fish shooting along half-way between the weeds and the surface.

there was not even a familiar dog to bark and determine the vexed question, "Is this I?" Helpless as an infant, flaccid as the sea-weed when taken from its native element, feeble in mind from recent suffering, broken in body, I was cast on the mercies of strangers, ignorant, until they saw me, of my existence, yet not indifferent to it, as their care testified.

My knees gave way beneath me, and I sank like a flaccid heap in the corner, against one of the leaves of the small folding-door that divided the arched vestibule from the long entry, and which was secured to the floor by a bolt, while the other one was thrown back.

His epigrams on Reynolds are masterpieces of virulent abuse; the punishment which he devised for Klopstockhis impersonation of 'flaccid fluency and devout sentiment'is unprintable; as for those who attempt to enforce moral laws, they shall be 'cast out,' for they 'crucify Christ with the head downwards.'

55 examples of  flaccid  in sentences