Meanings of scrawny body in English

Wulfe watched his short, scrawny body grow tall and muscular.

With her pale head and scrawny body she more than ever resembled a vulture.

Yet deep in his scrawny body there was a fiber of toughness, a vestigial resolve.

I dreamed my father lay naked beside me, and I'd wake pummeling his scrawny body.

The squatter lifted it up with infinite tenderness, binding the rags more closely about the scrawny body.

I hug my sister's scrawny body closer as if I can protect her from all things monstrous.

Arline gave an inarticulate snort, bent her scrawny body nearly double, and reached frankly into her stocking.

Ugly thing, short hair like a boy, little scrawny body, looking like no girl I ever saw.

Iza drew the child close to her, feeling her scrawny body shaking with fear, and murmured soothing sounds.

And I don't care that Nathan has an ugly, pockmarked face and a scrawny body and crooked teeth.

All I could imagine, however, was a man in green underwear with the green, scrawny body of a stick insect.

Stop it! He struggled with her, flailing about with his bony arms, trying to pull his clothing back across his scrawny body.

Squealing its anger, the occupant flung its scrawny body about in a lunatic fandango that threatened to pitch cage and monkey alike onto the floor.

They had slender, almost scrawny bodies covered with spotty red-brown fur.

The bliss of the water on their thin young legs and scrawny bodies was Heaven.