Skin And Bones (Noun)
Meaning
A person who is unusually thin and scrawny.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The homeless man was skin and bones, having not eaten a proper meal in weeks.
- After months of illness, she was reduced to skin and bones, a shadow of her former self.
- The refugee child was skin and bones, a heartbreaking sight to behold.
- Years of struggling with an eating disorder had left her skin and bones, a fragile and vulnerable state.
- The old man was skin and bones, his frail body a testament to the hardships he had faced in his life.