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  • adjective characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

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Examples

  • Her shadow settled over a picture in the open book, a large black-and-white image of a pale-faced, sunken-eyed man.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Her shadow settled over a picture in the open book, a large black-and-white image of a pale-faced, sunken-eyed man.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Her shadow settled over a picture in the open book, a large black-and-white image of a pale-faced, sunken-eyed man.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • She talked about how she never wanted to go back to Gansevoort — “and work at some stupid shit-ass cash register on Patroon Street” — and when she got angry her face turned splotchy and she looked older and much more like the sunken-eyed, proud, unaccomplished inebriate that was her father.

    Gansevoort Ridge 2009

  • All the comments about “skeletal” and “sunken-eyed” confirm my suspicion that clingy, shapeless clothes just make thin people look even more thin.

    SUSTAINABLE STYLE SUNDAY: SANS Future Forward Fashion | Inhabitat 2007

  • The model in the photos is not just thin, she looks skeletal and sunken-eyed.

    SUSTAINABLE STYLE SUNDAY: SANS Future Forward Fashion | Inhabitat 2007

  • At some point I reared up and actually went shopping, getting out after the light rain that greeted me this morning (what little was left of the morning by the time I rolled my sunken-eyed pasty corpus out of bed) but getting lightly sprinkled on the way back.

    And I passed through the day like a phantom, and ghosted into the night 2007

  • In the market, vendors stood over their goods with big sticks in their hands, beating back the walking, sunken-eyed skeletons.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • In the market, vendors stood over their goods with big sticks in their hands, beating back the walking, sunken-eyed skeletons.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • In the market, vendors stood over their goods with big sticks in their hands, beating back the walking, sunken-eyed skeletons.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

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