skin and bones
Frequency: 5.23.8 per million words
extremely thin
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Examples (10)
- After weeks of illness, he was nothing but skin and bones.
- The stray cat was so thin, it was just skin and bones.
- She looked like skin and bones after her prolonged hospital stay.
- The war had left the survivors as mere skin and bones.
- He's been dieting too much; he's practically skin and bones now.
- The rescued dog was a pitiable sight, all skin and bones.
- You can see his ribs because he's skin and bones.
- The famine victims were reduced to skin and bones.
- I was worried when I saw my brother; he had become skin and bones.
- The patient was discharged from the hospital, looking like skin and bones.