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
When you take a collagen supplement, that collagen probably comes from cow, pig and fish parts, such as tendons, skin and bones.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2023
Geltor is producing forms of collagen they say are identical to the proteins extracted from skin and bones.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2022
She was peeling back my skin and bones and looking into my heart, splitting it wide for me to see, and what I would soon find there terrified me.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
