skinny

"They come in fat and they come out skinny," he bragged, smiling and making a joke about his own weight.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

There were handheld American flags on skinny sticks, midsize ones to display on a wall and majestic formal flags adorned with silky gold fringe.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Low-rise skinny jeans may be out and High School Musical may no longer top the charts, but 2006 may be a portent nevertheless.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It was real skinny, real wiry, real kind of irritating actually; listening to it almost hurt your head,” Wagoner said in Stephen Miller’s “Smart Blonde: The Life of Dolly Parton.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

A small monkey with a long skinny tail dropped down from a branch directly above me and landed right on top of my head.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“It skinnies it a bit to make it a little more palatable going forward, but it focuses on some of our youngest learners and our highest-poverty elementary schools,” Riccelli said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

To loose-fit evangelists who have — since at least 2020, when comfort became the priority during pandemic lockdowns and denim brands struggled for survival — been declaring skinnies uncool, that may come as a surprise.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

The last thing he wants is for developers to swoop in and demolish buildings that could be saved, just to make way for tall skinnies and Airbnb’s.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2020

Casting aside the signature skinnies and grinnies that characterize the glossy pages of Elle and Vogue, Mirabella in its fashion pages features lesser-known models with figures of more realistic proportions.

From Time Magazine Archive

They cloth themselues with the skinnies of those beasts, because they haue nothing else to make them apparell withall.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt

Type B communities offer a skinnier version of the lifecare contract.

From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026

Coca-Cola is selling soda in skinnier, cheaper bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Notably, the whales observed are skinnier than they normally would be at this time of year, Slaathaug and several other researchers tell the BBC.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

One of the cat’s paws was injured, and he was skinnier than Gonzales remembered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

Kendra and Seth had brought a pair of jeans, but they turned out to be from Grandma’s skinnier days, and were not even close to fitting.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

It can claim to be one of Britain's skinniest homes, but there was plenty of interest when a house in the south Wales valleys sold for just under £45,000, around twice the estimate.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

And even at my skinniest, I am still morbidly obese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world’s skinniest, in fact.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

I sneaked bread to the skinniest cows and mourned the death of each chicken, goat and dog.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020

The door of the cabin burst open then, and the shortest, skinniest black woman Polly had ever seen pushed her way through the door.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper