rawboned

Example Sentences

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As a curious and rawboned kid, I’d sometimes roam the ravaged sandpit behind the factory.

From New York Times

One January, every time I took the J6 bus from Silver Spring Metro to my class on upper Connecticut Avenue, a tall, rawboned young man would board, wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

From Washington Post

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

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

From New York Times

A film composed of elegant shots of endless prairies, moonlit campfires and rawboned faces, “The Rider” makes the most of silence, finding lyricism in the sound of tinkling wind chimes and rustling grass.

From Washington Post