Sentence examples for having good bones from inspiring English sources

Whenever he hears a building described as having "good bones," Warren Pearl, a contractor who has been renovating town houses in Manhattan for 30 years, becomes suspicious.

I call it having good bones.

Bronx apartments are roomy, and the buildings have good bones.

The lovely building, which until recently resembled a haunted house, has good bones.

The apartments have "good bones," she said, complete with nine-foot ceilings (she measured them).

The building that houses the restaurant has good bones: brick walls and floor-to-ceiling windows.

As Mr. Klein likes to say, the property has "good bones".

But the 33-story, 641,000-square-foot building was centrally located and had good bones.

But the place had "good bones," and they had a vision for it.

The dining room at the Plaza Athénée has always had good bones, but it desperately needed a good face-lift.

"This house has good bones, like a fine old lady," said Bernadette Murray, an associate publisher of House & Garden.