rawboned
Example Sentences
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“This boy is wiry, strong, rawboned. Has good features — good voice, poise; looks like a ballplayer,” Davis wrote, before detailing Schmidt’s skills.
From New York Times
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
Hulking, rawboned and bespectacled, Mr. Ruckelshaus shepherded several federal environmental entities into a robust regulatory agency and did as much as anyone to mold the EPA’s mission.
From Washington Post
“It’s a rawboned little story,” Sehgal writes, “prim and racy, seriously weird and seriously excellent; a John Waters sex farce told with the tact and formality of a classic French fairy tale.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
