Sentence examples for boniness from inspiring English sources

He was a tall, thin man, dark hair beginning to go gray, a boniness distinguishing his features.

Francis Bacon once pointed out the amazing boniness of a particular Degas pastel — how the top of the model's spine seemed almost to break through the tautened skin as she craned forward to dry her hair.

The two junior girls, not quite nubile, are relatively dim, though Mab is assigned a certain boniness and a laugh that "showed too many teeth" and Nan a volatile, inquisitive intensity that suggests a budding author.

He could recall the exact sensation of his grandmother's arms around him, the boniness of her chest, the sharpness of her arms.

Long before Twiggy made boniness fashionable, St. Catherine of Siena starved herself to death in the 14th century to prove her faith.