skin and bones
noun
a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation.
skin and bone
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a variation of
skin and bones.
Example Sentences
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After three weeks of supplementation, older mice displayed better cognitive performance, although the treatment did not reverse the physical aging markers seen in skin and bone tissue.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Gladden didn’t lose his leg, but he spent the next three years in the hospital as doctors performed a series of surgeries, including tendon transplants, skin and bone grafts.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Stokes was Stokes, not a man made of skin and bone but hewed from granite.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2022
“With exemplary freshness it asks of us: What is this thing, this structure of skin and bone and gristle and muscle, that we are condemned to carry around with us wherever we go?” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022
Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
