skeletonize

Example Sentences

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Corporate lobbies are done up in billionaire-supervillain décor: pyramid-block walls, skeletonic hanging globes, gold-dusk lighting.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

Mahatma Gandhi� skeletonic, large-eared, great-nosed, Indian saint and politician whose doctrines of organized nonresistance threatens British, supremacy in India.

From Time Magazine Archive

She showed him a comic scene with a skeletonic man on a comic bicycle.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

Perhaps Hardy's proneness to dwell on the skeletonic grin of life is due to his exceeding sensitiveness to beauty.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert

Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize, Take your file and your skeletonic keys.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir