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Discover LudwigThe word "small-boned" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe people, animals, and plants that have a slender build or frame. For example, "The woman had a petite frame with small-boned wrists and ankles."
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And I am happy for small-boned miracles.
I didn't recognize myself in their small-boned beauty and the hum of their Ecuadorean Spanish.
He was a small-boned baby and was tubercular in his teens.
Nesbø, who is fifty-four, has a long, small-boned, triangular face.
Though small-boned and delicately featured, he fills the theater to the saturation point.
Ms. Blige is small-boned, with almond-shaped eyes and a high forehead.
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The small thin-boned skull had a large brain cavity.
He was a small, fine-boned man with a high-bridged nose, unsmiling, his eyes quick and clear.
She sits in the corner of a riverside Richmond cafe, a small, fine-boned, beautiful woman with a curtain of grey hair shielding her from the world.
A small, fine-boned woman with a quiet and deliberate manner, she is a sculptor who lives in an elegant SoHo loft decorated with art by Marcel Duchamp.
I worry about wreaking havoc on this week's restaurant in the same way, for it is so small, fine-boned and delicate that a stampeding crowd of dribbling, hungry people could well be more than it could bear.
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