be skin and bone BrE
be skin and bones AmE

By the time they killed her, she was skin and bones.

All I had in my leg was skin and bones.

"People you see on the side of the road are skin and bone.

I am so tired of seeing these "women" that are skin and bones.

He was skin and bone; and cold, despite the fire close by.

For want of oats, the horses in his stable are skin and bone.

That made people not notice that the rest of her was skin and bones.

Another line follows line 33 of the published poem, "I may be skin and bone."

His face is skin and bones and frozen black.

She was skin and bones, a shredded green dress barely covering her nakedness.

He was skin and bones, like a pale, long-limbed salamander.

Often she saw a Negro face, a woman who was skin and bones named Lourdes.

"I am skin and bones," he said to Murasaki, who sat gazing at him, tears in her eyes.

The primary elements in this world are skin and bone and sun and rock.

It was skin and bone, looked like it was only a few months old."

Her formerly voluptuous figure was skin and bones.

"I was skin and bone at home."

Hitherto you have been skin and bone.

The children are skin and bones.

Bull terriers have rocks for heads; they only pretend that they are skin and bones.

She'd been skin and bones!

'The girl is skin and bone!

"First there is skin and bones, then clothing, then a chair and then housing.

But he was skin and bones, all waxy and drawn, a skeleton flattened down against the sheets, barely alive.

"I was skin and bones," Mr. Williams said.

By the time they killed her, she was skin and bones.

All I had in my leg was skin and bones.

I am so tired of seeing these "women" that are skin and bones.

That made people not notice that the rest of her was skin and bones.

His face is skin and bones and frozen black.

She was skin and bones, a shredded green dress barely covering her nakedness.

He was skin and bones, like a pale, long-limbed salamander.

Often she saw a Negro face, a woman who was skin and bones named Lourdes.

"I am skin and bones," he said to Murasaki, who sat gazing at him, tears in her eyes.

Her formerly voluptuous figure was skin and bones.

The children are skin and bones.

Bull terriers have rocks for heads; they only pretend that they are skin and bones.

She'd been skin and bones!

"First there is skin and bones, then clothing, then a chair and then housing.

But he was skin and bones, all waxy and drawn, a skeleton flattened down against the sheets, barely alive.

"I was skin and bones," Mr. Williams said.

"And they can't be skin and bones."

Even Consul Le Blanc is skin and bones.

Youll wish you were skin and bones, you bloated, oversized pig's bladder!

LⓞVⓔ Mⓔ - 1 month 21 days ago Eat like the stars and you will be skin and bones!

Up close, I saw how her eyes were sunk deep into their sockets; how, beneath her unshorn coat, she was skin and bones.

Everything was parched and wilting; there was little grass left, and the cattle were skin and bones.

A Ravenous Elephant The water buffaloes and the yak were skin and bones.

I was afraid poor Gairloch would be skin and bones by the time we got to Passera."

Sampras at 18 was skin and bones and talent; Philippoussis at 18 is built like a power forward.