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
The last time their daughter saw her father, "he couldn't get out of bed. He was literally skin and bones," Gamboa said.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2023
Now he weighed only what skin and bones do.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022
What remains on the landscape is a body of skin and bones that then slowly desiccates and deflates, eventually preserved for the eons.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
For thirty-eight days, I lay in a coma—sixty-six pounds of skin and bones.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
