Sentence examples for scrawny frame from inspiring English sources

Soon enough Doris's pregnancy was noticeable on her scrawny frame.

"I'm always trying to prove myself," he said, his scrawny frame as tensed as that of a bantam-weight boxer.

"The stuff is a wonder," he said, taking a pause from his prowling, his scrawny frame wrapped in a white towel.

Most obviously, he has worked furiously at those annual retreats to Miami, beefing up his once scrawny frame into that of a finely honed athlete.

I was twenty-five but easily passed for younger — my scrawny frame underdeveloped, my cheeks still hairless — so I advertised nineteen.

The thin monotonous wail that convulsed her scrawny frame drove her mother, Esperance, to desperation.

Murray has matured, built up his once-scrawny frame, improved his serve and become a serious contender.

The scrawny figure shuffled into court last week, shackled and limping.

Contrasting memories ran up against each other, as when Mr. Serrano jokingly recalled rummaging through a closet in the sacristy for an altar-boy robe that would fit his then-scrawny teenage frame and in virtually the next breath reminding the others in the room of the heat setting on a vibrator that he said Mr. Hanley used when molesting them as boys.

I remember one inmate – a scrawny, sallow specimen – framing the entrance to the shower of his pod.

Suspects flee before officers arrive"), the story charts the growing infatuation between two patrol partners ("Crowd control progresses smoothly. Officer [Shield #325] musses hair clobbering balky demonstrator. A scrawny little hank slips loose, nestles against her right cheek, framing the side of her face like an open parenthesis").