bony
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"They're a heavy, bony fish, so it must be some severe ramming," Wellard said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Fishermen and chefs report that Asian carp are actually delicious, though they are so bony they don’t make good filets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Unlike horns or bony plates, they were not solid extensions of bone.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
Carl huddled in a chair, nursing his bony knees, fascinated and bewildered by the grimaces of the big Greek.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The introductory news release dubbed them simply “Beyond Fried Chicken,” and the accompanying photo depicted the not-nuggets in a paper bucket reminiscent of the receptacles that usually house the chain’s bonier offerings.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
No, really: Unlike bonier fish, Greenland sharks lack distinctive growth rings for researchers to count like those in a tree.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2016
As modern-day sharks have fully cartilage skeletons, the fossil suggests they evolved from an earlier, bonier fish, transforming to a cartilage skeleton to make them lighter, more nimble and quicker through the water.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2015
Oedipus' puppet, blinded and bonier than ever, came back in time to disintegrate before the final curtain.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a good color of nail polish, and Margo had nice fingers, thinner and bonier than the rest of her, which was all curves and soft edges.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
Any savvy politician knows to grab the boniest chunk of raccoon on the table since it will make for the best photo and have the least amount of meat.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2014
“The longest, boniest thing the nurses had ever seen.”
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
When I was in the upmost bartizan we had one of the boniest prospects that could be.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord
To-day saw the thinnest, boniest woman imaginable; Mrs. Booysen; just a skeleton; husband Ceylon; daughter here; son and daughter still at the front.
From Woman's Endurance by Luckhoff, A. D (August D.)
He was the boniest, small horse Sheila had ever seen—a shadow of a horse, one-eyed, morose, embittered.
From Hidden Creek by Burt, Katharine Newlin
