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
Differences between the Eco Edison and vessels built for offshore and deep water oil rigs aren’t yet apparent as the skin and bones of the towering ship take shape in a 120-foot-tall waterside assembly building.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2023
What remains on the landscape is a body of skin and bones that then slowly desiccates and deflates, eventually preserved for the eons.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
Eighty-nine, and skin and bones like a mummy, she stood listening at her open front door, hands on hips and very grim of face.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
