skin and bones
Example Sentences
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Baroness Golding said her dad told her of people at the camps who were "skin and bones with vacant eyes".
From BBC • May 5, 2025
The last time their daughter saw her father, "he couldn't get out of bed. He was literally skin and bones," Gamboa said.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2023
While the broth is simmering, use a fork or your fingers to shred chicken into bite-size pieces, discarding skin and bones.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022
“I think it’s the deepest kind of listening I’ve done,” he said, “and it’s not even just listening with the ears, but with the skin and bones and muscles.”
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2019
One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin and bones, with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion, to fulfill the promise of dying beside his wife.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
