scrawniness

Example Sentences

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The scrawniness and the stringiness … eating a wing is like eating an arm off a T. rex.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2020

Back in 2014, he tweeted, “"I am in Canada and would like to help @justinbieber with his life problems and scrawniness."

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2018

Christ's scrawniness, and slumped head, hark back to austere 15th century examples by Donatello and Masaccio; his isolation, and the absence of other saints, accords with the Lutheran emphasis on Christ and his passion.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

He weighs a hundred and twenty pounds without his hammer, is lean to scrawniness, and his arms are those of the boys you see at the track meet of Lincoln Grammar School Number Seven.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

She was slight to scrawniness, and, one might have thought, insufficiently clad for the time of year.

From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter