Example Sentences

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It’s painful to navigate, and while Michael has always been great to me, I become anxious whenever I think about the role my skinniness played in his attraction to me.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2020

But while our experiences vary, skinniness isn’t a free pass from the burdens of self-consciousness and the psychic struggle that a ruthlessly superficial society inflicts.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2015

Despite his youth and beanpole skinniness, Mr. Benson — wide-eyed but deadpan in manner — already has the height of a grown-up.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2012

Even in her early films, her height, her skinniness and her wistfulness combined to get her noticed.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2011

His skinniness made him seem even more like a messenger from the world of the ancestors.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer