rawboned

Example Sentences

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Hulking, rawboned and bespectacled, Mr. Ruckelshaus shepherded several federal environmental entities into a robust regulatory agency and did as much as anyone to mold the EPA’s mission.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

Kirschling, a rawboned young man from Wisconsin, had written a master’s thesis at Columbia about long-term productivity decline in New York City’s mass transit.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018

Instead of brooding human wire hangers, they were rappers and skaters and rawboned teenagers again.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

The tall, rawboned loner, who was then in his sixth decade of life, fell in love with the forested mountains and granite formations of Custer State Park.

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2017

He turned and stood as a door opened and a guard led in Dillard Early Sr. Dill’s father was tall and gaunt, rawboned.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner