skin and bones
Example Sentences
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Baroness Golding said her dad told her of people at the camps who were "skin and bones with vacant eyes".
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
Shred chicken into bite sized pieces, discarding skin and bones.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
“I told myself before the game, he’s made of skin and bones just like everyone else — but I was wrong.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Now he weighed only what skin and bones do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
She was peeling back my skin and bones and looking into my heart, splitting it wide for me to see, and what I would soon find there terrified me.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
