Sentence examples for a sack of bones from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a sack of bones" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe someone who is very thin or frail, often implying a lack of strength or vitality.
Example: "After months of illness, he looked like a sack of bones, barely able to stand."
Alternatives: "a bag of bones" or "a skeleton in skin".

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A sack of bones he is forced to carry around.

He had killed him in stages, taking away his decency, his honor, his self-respect, his joy in living, his hopes and desires, turning him into a sack of bones tormented by the guilty conscience that had been destroying him gradually for so many years".

She was just a sack of bones, anyway.

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Once when I picked Beth up, noticing how "floppy" she was, a featherweight sack of bones held together by tissue-paper skin, I recalled a patient I had taken care of years before.

Even when propagated through "a water-filled sack of bones," as Harrison described the body, just about everything produces a unique high-frequency vibration pattern, a sort of acoustic signature that can be used to identify it almost immediately.

In true dermoids, fatty components are often collected in nodules, thus giving a "sack-of-marbles" appearance [43].

Don't let it get its twiggy little grip on you and suck you into a never-ending cycle of planting and fucking around until there's nothing left of you except a hunched over, scarred up, sun-weathered sack of bones with no real skills.

She and her colleagues estimate they will need one sack of bones per contaminated front or backyard, and they have as many as 149 yards to go, provided the property owners agree to the cleanup.

Take The Reach with a sack of salt and the pulpy conceit still runs bone dry.

"Who wants a sack of cement?

"It's like a sack of potatoes".

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