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n. (alternative form of skin and bones English)
Usage examples of "skin and bone".
The crops were starved of sunshine and rotted in the fields, the fish swam in the deepest waters and their skin became transparent, the ducks and geese could no longer see where they were flying and refused to eat, so before long they wasted to skin and bone.
Steel sheared through sleeve and skin and bone, yet the sound was wrong somehow.
By the 1920*5 it was possible to detect the currents even through the thickness of skin and bone covering the brain.
Kilvanen was all skin and bone, his skin pale and dry, his eyes bright with the coming of death.
The sleek pod lay open, revealing Rhombur's scarred lump of skin and bone, bristling with tubes, wires, and connections.
True, your blood, skin and bone will be removed and reduced to thek basic constituent elements, but your brain will remain.
His pallid skin and bone-white hair made him look a living corpse.
She was skin and bone with wasted muscles and fur roughened by her illness, but she was alive.
These people were meat-eaters, but the beef furnished them by the government inspectors was no more than skin and bone.
By the first day of autumn he was barely skin and bone, and Duvodas knew that he was dying.