all skin and bones
Example Sentences
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She had aged, all skin and bones, and her tapered eyes of a carnivorous animal had become sad and tame from looking at the rain so much.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Last of all came a straggler, all skin and bones, hobbling on a twisted foot.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
You put that long yellow paw of yours, all skin and bones, into a man's hand, and there you let it lie.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
A sour, black old ogre, all skin and bones, like a consumptive red herring!
From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes
When I put on a bathing suit I am embarrassed until I get out of sight in the water, because I'm all skin and bones.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
