Sentence examples for a bag of bones from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a bag of bones" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is very thin or emaciated, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "After months of illness, he looked like a bag of bones, barely able to stand."
Alternatives: "a skeleton" or "a mere shadow of their former self."

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The music rustles like dry leaves, rattles like a bag of bones.

Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones.

Chandler finished the story, "He looked like a bag of bones, and so he became Jonny Bones".

Burris had told her he wouldn't even consider having children with her and called her "a bag of bones".

And philosophically it pleased me — the fleshy picture on a bag of bones, the rebuke of an image's immortality.

Barely eating, she was a bag of bones, night sweats had matted her long curls to her face, her skin was pale as a ghost.

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By this time, the child was ­a "bag of bones", said her grandmother, Brigitte.

He arrived a bag of rattling bones and turned into a charming monster who laughed at the world with the eyes of an old man.

Watch Me Fall may be small, but it's very smart: brash, brutally absurd and as fragile as a bag of broken bones.

At 77 and in truculent good health, Jimmy Breslin has clearly not died and has even, with some notable exceptions, managed to avoid that quasi death by documentary, a process by which an otherwise vital personality is turned into a bag of talking bones on PBS.

A bag of prosthetic bones, used as a prop to teach hours of art lessons, has been identified as the skeleton of a real person, the Yorkshire Post reports.

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