Sentence examples for scrawny with from inspiring English sources

Picked prematurely, the beans are scrawny, with bland flavor; picked too late, they're on their way to becoming dry soybeans.

Short and scrawny with sad, bulging eyes, he described his motivation as that of a dispossessed young man with no opportunities in the new Iraq.

When Dutch ships first came across them on their way across the Indian Ocean, on the uninhabited island of Mauritius, the drawings that came back to Europe showed a slender bird, almost scrawny, with stumpy wings.

They are generally minuscule, dry and scrawny, with broken leaves, which these plants can't afford because of their inherent sparseness.

He looks far worse for wear than Shpendi: scrawny, with dark circles below his eyes and an exhausted gaze.

He looks far worse for wear than Lloshi — scrawny, with dark circles below his eyes and an exhausted gaze.

She looks good scrawnier, with a little bit of her stomach showing with a crop top, her arms birdlike, her legs little sticks.

What many saw when they looked at her was a scrawny woman with a twisted spine who got around with a power wheelchair and lots of help.

"This started as self-defence but now we're fighting for his downfall," said Sheikh Mohammed al-Farasi, a scrawny man with bloodshot eyes loading his AK-47 with cartridges.

First Molon bulks up Cicero's scrawny body with eggs, anchovies and exercise.

I always thought he'd be dark haired, scrawny and with spectacles.