rawboned

Example Sentences

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Kirschling, a rawboned young man from Wisconsin, had written a master’s thesis at Columbia about long-term productivity decline in New York City’s mass transit.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018

Instead of brooding human wire hangers, they were rappers and skaters and rawboned teenagers again.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

The tall, rawboned loner, who was then in his sixth decade of life, fell in love with the forested mountains and granite formations of Custer State Park.

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2017

As Burwell himself noted, to have placed conventional music into the film at any juncture would have completely destroyed the values that made it such a tour de force of rawboned realism and anxiety.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2017

Tansy was named for a wildflower, which suited her because she was just as countrified and rawboned as me and Lloyd, almost.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck