Sentence examples for as a skeleton in from inspiring English sources

The phrase "as a skeleton in" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be an attempt to reference the idiom "skeleton in the closet," which refers to a hidden secret or shameful fact.
Example: "He has a skeleton in the closet that he hopes no one will ever discover."
Alternatives: "hidden secret" or "buried truth".

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"To me this is as scary as a skeleton in the closet at Halloween".

Scarborough also showed a clip from "Saturday Night Live," in which Bannon, presented as a skeleton in a black cloak, instructed Trump in the Oval Office before taking over his desk and consigning him to a smaller one.

That this might have been the case, even though Hastert was known to have made millions of dollars on a deal involving land bought cheaply and sold, at a striking profit, after he had pushed plans through Congress for a nearby highway, says something about what counts as a skeleton in Washington.

In other words, the lattice is seen as a "skeleton" in which the interactions between the rigid grains are represented by forces and moments which depend on their relative displacements and rotations.

The "male" died in May 1822, and is preserved as a skeleton in the same museum.

I thought I'd get away with it, seeing how my wrists were skinny as a skeleton in a skin graft.

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He pictures Death for us as an embodied female absence, a skeleton in a sheet who lives in a frigid, subterranean room, accompanied only by her much used scythe.

De Klerk does not so much have a skeleton in his closet as a whole coterie doing the can-can all around his bedroom.

Amanda Barthelemy, the younger sister of Melissa Barthelemy who disappeared in 2009 and was discovered during the search for Gilbert as a skeleton wrapped in burlap along the bramble of Ocean Parkway in December 2010 was tormented by the killer in a series of violent and sexually explicit phone calls made from locations in and around Midtown Manhattan.

An article in the New Times LA described Frusciante as "a skeleton covered in thin skin" who at the nadir of his addictions nearly died from a blood infection.

An article published by the New Times LA described him as "a skeleton covered in thin skin".

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