all skin and bones
Example Sentences
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She had aged, all skin and bones, and her tapered eyes of a carnivorous animal had become sad and tame from looking at the rain so much.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Last of all came a straggler, all skin and bones, hobbling on a twisted foot.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
When I put on a bathing suit I am embarrassed until I get out of sight in the water, because I'm all skin and bones.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
A sour, black old ogre, all skin and bones, like a consumptive red herring!
From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes
He was a withered old man, all skin and bones and sweat-stiffened tunic, with enormous red-rimmed eyes.
From Home is Where You Left It by Marlowe, Stephen
