bag of bones

Example Sentences

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Camille’s heartbreak is so consuming that it turns her into something else entirely, placing her soul in the framework of her sought-after chair and turning her human body into a stiff, agreeable bag of bones.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

A bag of bones found on a roadside prompting a police probe turned out to be the remains of a sheep.

From BBC • May 20, 2023

I’m always thinking when the movie’s over and I’m a bag of bones going home, that there has to be this other way for me to tell stories without abandoning myself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2021

And, if you get there early and ask nicely, Vines will slip you a bag of bones from under the counter.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2019

He was again the scrawny bag of bones she remembered from the little island.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer