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- adjective Like a
skeleton .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Never seen a man who had the stomach to watch,” she quipped, rubbing her skeletonlike hands together.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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His eyes adjusted further, and he saw long, spidery beams, extending outward from the cavern walls to reach the skeletonlike shape.
Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993
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“Never seen a man who had the stomach to watch,” she quipped, rubbing her skeletonlike hands together.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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“Never seen a man who had the stomach to watch,” she quipped, rubbing her skeletonlike hands together.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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“Never seen a man who had the stomach to watch,” she quipped, rubbing her skeletonlike hands together.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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Then he poured a generous portion of the contents over the shriveled eyes and skeletonlike face.
Kid Wolf of Texas 1938
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Idly, he allowed his gaze to wander over the expanse of water between the two blunt points of land, then he looked back at the skeletonlike spire which jutted upward from the green hills he had just passed over.
Final Weapon Everett B. Cole 1924
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His young body that had been so sturdy was gaunt and skeletonlike.
Helen of the Old House Harold Bell Wright 1908
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As the car felt its way through the ghostly town, Barry was only vaguely conscious in the darkness of its ghostly skeletonlike ruins.
The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Ralph Connor 1898
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Hitherto the Veiled Woman had remained in the rear, with the white - robed, skeletonlike image that had crept to my side unawares with its noiseless step.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890
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