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Example sentences for "scrawny"

Lexicographically close words:
scrawl; scrawled; scrawling; scrawls; scrawly; scream; screamed; screamer; screamers; screaming
  1. The scrawny face relaxed in a genuine smile.

  2. Moments later, a scrawny man with a crafty, wizened face beneath a shock of whitish hair, stepped into sight.

  3. This is a scrawny looking one, and I just reckon it'll be time wasted," he added.

  4. Yes, and I believe my mussel was as thin and scrawny looking a fellow as the one you complained of," laughed Max.

  5. Plenty of these scrawny infants may be seen in the lying-in hospitals.

  6. She wore a blouse of the same pink stuff, cut low, with a sailor collar, baring her scrawny neck and the deep hollows behind her collar bones.

  7. The collar of his jacket stood out from a scrawny neck that had a nude, leathery, rugose appearance, like the neck of a buzzard.

  8. It would be the end of English taxes and trade anywhere in the Americas except for that scrawny settlement of fanatic Puritans up in "New England.

  9. At the perimeter of the circle two scrawny soldiers struggled to keep their footing in the pounding surf.

  10. When the time came for him to say farewell the old chief reached out his thin, scrawny hand.

  11. The woman chuckled and reached out a scrawny hand for the photograph.

  12. All doubt was at once removed, and as the old man stretched out a scrawny hand for the treasure, a smile of triumph passed over Pritchen's hard face.

  13. Ye didn't think those pretty arms would encircle yer scrawny neck, did ye, or her sweet lips touch yer rough face?

  14. Then his old wrinkled visage broke into a smile, and he reached out a thin, scrawny hand in welcome.

  15. First came a wagon pulled by two scrawny horses and carrying a whole Navajo family--father, mother, two children and a goat.

  16. Within minutes, three scrawny mutts were scratching at the screen door of the cottage.

  17. Virginia tried bravely to smile, but she was very near to tears as she stood on the uneven pavement and looked at the scrawny horses standing patiently in the steady downpour.

  18. General Sherman, jumping on the bare back of a scrawny horse, cantered through the fields.

  19. An upright cannon marks the spot where a scrawny oak once stood on a scarred and baked hillside, outside of the Confederate lines at Vicksburg.

  20. The bulls often become so maddened in these forays that they drop and die in their tracks, for which strange fact no one can account, but as a rule they are too scrawny and mean to make their handling difficult.

  21. Nora righted the table, spread and smoothed the cloths, extended her scrawny eager arms for the baby.

  22. They entered a small room, divided unequally by a barrier desk; behind it stood a lean, coffee-sallowed young man with a scrawny neck displayed to the uttermost by a standing collar scarcely taller than the band of a shirt.

  23. Bruce shook old Elmira's scrawny hand; then she turned back at once into the house.

  24. She took some little object from the bag and slipped it next to her withered and scrawny breast.

  25. Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do.

  26. Mrs. Thomas said I was the homeliest baby she ever saw, I was so scrawny and tiny and nothing but eyes, but that mother thought I was perfectly beautiful.

  27. Mary rolled up her ragged sleeves, and held up her scrawny arms and thin hands, chapped almost to rawness.

  28. In a minute she had pulled the stockings over her scrawny little legs and slipped Faith's shoes over her thick little ankles.

  29. He had a glimpse of a scrawny figure with a high green headdress leaping down, snatching a spear, vanishing in an improvised protective phalanx.

  30. The fat monster nursed his obscene belly between scrawny knees and whispered a stream of information into the close ear of a witch with empty eye sockets, and the whispering dark lips wore a destroying smile.

  31. He was a scrawny little feller, with little gray eyes set near together, and some sandy-complected whiskers on his chin.

  32. Flat chests, angular and warped shoulders, scrawny necks, slender arms and waists, and a weak and tired gait.

  33. Judged by this standard, the rule of exercise must be a good one, for the instances of lean arms and legs filled out, and of scrawny necks and hollow shoulders made round and plump by exercise, outnumber the other ten to one.

  34. But leave the strange places and the strange secrets of the earth to university professors and magazine writers, they being poor devils and mostly so scrawny that nothing would bite them anyway.

  35. He looked down at his body and saw as a revelation the pitiful wasting of his strength--how scrawny he was of limb, how bloated about the middle, and his skin how soft and leprous white.

  36. It's a scrawny looking bunch, men an' all.

  37. Then Uncle Tommy shifted his sail to the other shoulder and trudged on up the hill; and Bagg threw himself on the ground and wept until his sobs convulsed his scrawny little body.

  38. Bagg was scrawny and sallow, with bandy legs and watery eyes and a fantastic cranium; and he had a snub nose, which turned blue when a cold wind struck it.

  39. I cannot forbear repeating that tulle as light as thistle bubbles, either white or gray or black, is exquisitely effective for thin, scrawny necks.

  40. On the other hand it is rare that one meets a sevillana, unless she be deeply marked by the finger of time, who is ugly; never, if my search was thorough, one scrawny or angular.

  41. A women joined him, a scrawny woman who laid a hand inertly in his, and I recognized Bloody Mary, who seemed thus in an instant to have leaped over the seas from her island kingdom to join her gloomy husband.

  42. It was the scrawny youth with the twisted nose and the husky voice who had been a second in his corner the night he fought Battling Rodriguez to get money to pay for his father's funeral.

  43. A scrawny youth with a twisted nose, a jersey sweater and a husky voice was tying on his gloves.

  44. Oddly it was the mayor who was flustered when the two were introduced by Brennan, probably because he felt he owed so much to the scrawny youth who stood before him.

  45. The white dimpled hands were dark and scrawny now, but people still spoke of her as "Elmiry Ann.

  46. So Miss Rogers arranged the bundles under her shawl and Mrs. Safford caught sight of something white, held tightly in the dark scrawny hand.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrawny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstemious; angular; ascetic; austere; bony; dwarfed; emaciated; exiguous; flat; frail; frugal; gangling; gaunt; gawky; haggard; impoverished; jejune; lanky; lean; limited; meager; meagre; mean; miserly; narrow; niggardly; paltry; parsimonious; poor; puny; rawboned; scant; scanty; scraggy; scrawny; skeletal; skimpy; skinny; slender; slight; slim; small; spare; sparing; spidery; spindly; starvation; stingy; stinted; straitened; stunted; subsistence; thin; twiggy; undersized; underweight; watery