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US
/ˈboʊni/
]
[ UK /bˈəʊni/ ]
[ UK /bˈəʊni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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being very thin
pale bony hands
a long scrawny neck
a child with skinny freckled legs -
having bones especially many or prominent bones
bony fish
a bony shad fillet
her bony wrist
How To Use boney In A Sentence
- And in Strut, two vicious-looking dogs occupy a vague terrain in which a pair of skulls suggest a boneyard where the dogs have eaten their fill.
- This sense of boyish innocence and hope helps define The Devil's Backbone as something more than just your average trip to the boneyard.
- There's a whole craft industry based on vehicles for transferring corpses from the chapel to the boneyard.
- Digs have been going on around the so-called boneyard field for the last 15 years. EDP24 News
- Wrath of the Lich King features many such 'boney' monsters, including flying frost wyrms. World of war
- She hit her high point early on with a powerful reading of "Siboney" that used minor and pentatonic modes to reference Middle-Eastern music and even traveled momentarily through a reggae beat. Masters and Young Bloods
- “Boney bwoy” is not a local living skeleton, but a native from Bonny River. Travels in West Africa
- At the Historic Aerials website, you can find images of the aircraft "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan AFB in 1958. Archive 2008-06-01
- Well, I want to see one," I said when he concluded, falling to the couch in a boney mass of exhaustion. The Hiders
- For the part of the inventory that most urgently needs immediate expansion, the A-10 and the close support mission, hundreds of airframes now sitting in the "boneyard" can and should be refurbished -- at extraordinarily modest cost. Winslow T. Wheeler: What Now, Icarus? Is Western Combat Aviation Falling Out of the Sky?
