Sentence examples for bony frame from inspiring English sources

A musty, cheap suit hung loosely on his bony frame.

When I embraced him, I held on to his bony frame for a long while.

Blanche's eyes flutter, and the valise shifts in her hand, almost too heavy for her taut, bony frame to carry.

But this red-capped French explorer, with his prominent beak and bony frame, could easily have used another metaphor.

General Kamorteiro looked gaunt and frail today, his government-issued camouflage uniform hanging on a bony frame wasted by hunger and hard years on the run.

Now, here was a witness you could sink your teeth into, Oakwood thought, then seeing her bony frame before him, corrected himself quickly: collaborate with.

I pictured them shuffling in the dark down the beige-carpeted hall that led from their bedroom to the bathroom, my grandmother bending under his bony, fragile frame.

Her bony figure, clad in vivid colours that echo the rainbow framing the giant posters of her husband all over the city, Murillo is enshrining what seems to be the reign of another dynasty in Nicaragua.

Then a gaunt, bony figure struggled through.

And he was an easy one to spot, riding his bicycle through Midtown, where he did most of his field work: his bony-thin frame draped in his utilitarian blue French worker's jacket, khaki pants and black sneakers (he himself was no one's idea of a fashion plate), with his 35-millimeter camera slung around his neck, ever at the ready for the next fashion statement to come around the corner.

As Futuyma (1998) puts it, using the familiar vertebrate forelimb example (Fig. 1), the design hypothesis "does not require that the same bony elements form the frame of the hands of primates, the digging forelimbs of moles, the wings of bats, birds, and pterosaurs, and the flippers of whales and penguins".