Sentence examples for skinny from inspiring English sources

The word "skinny" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as an adjective to describe something that is thin in size or stature, for example, "She was wearing a pair of skinny jeans."

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skinny

adjective

Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.

  • Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender

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Who want to know: are skinny jeans still hip?

The lattes are going to have to get very skinny before the Greens can make too many deals with any Labour minority government: without actually mentioning the word "borrowing" the Greens have committed themselves to still be running a £20bn deficit in 2019.

In America, male body shapes will wax and wane – over a period of half a decade, they might go from the "jock" to something skinny and then creep back to the current vogue, the "swimmer's" body – that is, not such a meathead that you could beat anybody up, but not so lanky that you look pubescent.

Underneath its yellow skinny jeans, Vice is wearing a suit.

Well, some people … Related: Russell Tovey: 'I was a scared, skinny little rat.

He was 18, skinny, with gelled-up red hair and a tendency to look at the floor when he spoke.

See how skinny she is – half-starved, poor thing.

Just inside, children labour hard to prepare storm ditches for the coming rains, digging out the stinking mud, watched by a sullen adult and a young girl with no expression on her face beyond that shaped by her skinny cheekbones.

All that remained was a skinny carcass of bedraggled wet feathers on a patch of bilberries, the tag's antenna sticking into the air.

Her sparkly green top and skinny jeans are worn with a confidence that outshines her peers.

They obey every rule of good jeans: medium-rise waist; straight leg; slim-ish but not skinny; raw, indigo denim (it'll fade); absolutely no branding, or unnecessary stitching, or rips, or diamanté.

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