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
When you take a collagen supplement, that collagen probably comes from cow, pig and fish parts, such as tendons, skin and bones.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2023
Now he weighed only what skin and bones do.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022
Eighty-nine, and skin and bones like a mummy, she stood listening at her open front door, hands on hips and very grim of face.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
