Sentence examples for walking skeleton from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Habré was overthrown in December 1990 and fled to Senegal, the prison doors were flung open, and I returned, a walking skeleton, to my family.

Aid workers there sent word to the Times that somebody claiming to know Schanberg had arrived at the camp…a walking skeleton named Dith Pran.

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Get your Parliament to pass the proposed $225 billion package to clean up and restructure your banking system, which is like a walking skeleton spooking everyone in Asia, and open your markets more to Asian exports -- now, not in 2005.

Instead, he was sent by bus to India, then by plane to Ethiopia and Togo, where he lived as a beggar for a year and was reduced to a walking skeleton, before finally his family helped him to bribe his way into Melilla in the back of a car.

"Beriberi leaves you like a walking skeleton - they will need immediate humanitarian assistance," he said.

Many were so thin they were like walking skeletons.

But for most of Africa and scattered other countries like Haiti, Guyana and Cambodia, it seems inevitable that the 1990s will return: walking skeletons in the villages, stacks of bodies in morgues, mountains of newly turned earth in cemeteries.

Workers at a factory in American Samoa that made apparel for the J. C. Penney Company and other retailers were often beaten and were provided food so inadequate that some were "walking skeletons," a Labor Department investigation has found.

Along with extensive computer-generated graphics, in which fossils are brought to life as moving, walking skeletons, it also marks the first time Attenborough has been able to film in China, which has become the modern frontier of paleontological research.

A17 Inquiry Finds Workers Abused Workers at a Korean-owned factory in American Samoa that made apparel for J. C. Penney and other retailers were often beaten and provided food so inadequate that some were "walking skeletons," a Labor Department investigation found.