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skin and bones

NOUN
  1. a person who is unusually thin and scrawny

How To Use skin and bones In A Sentence

  • She began to feel terribly cold as she plummeted through the depths of the pond, feeling its matter travel through her body, through her skin and bones and internal organs like some ghostly ectoplasm.
  • Remove chicken, trim off skin and bones, and return chicken in large pieces to the soup.
  • He might prowl about for a week or two like a dog in springtime, then, all skin and bones and weary of the world, he would return from his wanderings and never recall what happened to him, what women had said, what they smelled and tasted like ... A beautiful excerpt from Sunflower
  • Remove the skin and bones from the fish. The Sun
  • He who had been nothing but skin and bones filled out nicely - but there was in no way any ‘bulk’ on him (not that she could see that well through his doublet anyways).
  • Flake the fish free of skin and bones. A Passion for Food
  • An old man, ‘nothing but skin and bones’, offers to carry the young man's suitcase for 30 centavos.
  • At this stage I weighed 5 and a half stone and was only skin and bones but I still thought I was fat.
  • Remove the skin and bones from the fish. The Sun
  • Remove chicken, trim off skin and bones, and return chicken in large pieces to the soup.
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