skeletonlike
Example Sentences
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A bowed, gray- colored, skeletonlike thing was coming toward him.
From "1984" by George Orwell
His young body that had been so sturdy was gaunt and skeletonlike.
From Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright
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 Anthony Gilmore
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 Julian Hawthorne
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 Ralph Connor
