skeletonlike

Example Sentences

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A bowed, gray- colored, skeletonlike thing was coming toward him.

From "1984" by George Orwell

On the third table lay a shape skeletonlike in appearance, so emaciated was it, so closely did the bones press into the dry, fever-yellowed skin.

From The Passing of Ku Sui by Gilmore, Anthony

As the car felt its way through the ghostly town, Barry was only vaguely conscious in the darkness of its ghostly skeletonlike ruins.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Connor, Ralph

Hitherto the Veiled Woman had remained in the rear, with the white- robed, skeletonlike image that had crept to my side unawares with its noiseless step.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian

His young body that had been so sturdy was gaunt and skeletonlike.

From Helen of the Old House by Wright, Harold Bell