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Meanings of skinny in English
Giving or spending with reluctance.
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Examples for "slender"
Examples for "slender"
1
The Conservative party can form a government but its majority is slender.
2
Eve was slender and delicate, far too precious to risk so pointlessly.
3
A slender boy in grey was waiting for them in the veranda.
4
Then the slender shuttle is passed in and out among the threads.
5
Near the trunk of the cottonwood stood a slender woman in white.
1
Perales said that without government backing the chances of change are slim.
2
He said he was confident the region would keep its slim lead.
3
Protecting a slim lead, the US needed discipline in the second half.
4
You were a hope -however slim -to find Mary Terror.
5
Margins on Iraq's southern projects are slim by comparison, say industry sources.
1
Mary took Billy's scrawny shoulders in her hand, saying, Come on, sweetie.
2
My arms seemed particularly scrawny hanging out from beneath the short sleeves.
3
Plenty of these scrawny infants may be seen in the lying-in hospitals.
4
The picture will capture the moment forever, he shrugged his scrawny shoulders.
5
The long scrawny throat worked convulsively, the hands gripped each other savagely.
1
I'd never thought about their heart health because both are considered underweight.
2
Pimco is underweight emerging markets after cutting its exposure recently, Baker said.
3
In addition, underweight patients had a decreased risk of developing postoperative infection.
4
Central banks have long been underweight the yen in their reserve portfolios.
5
Similar magnitude of RR of underweight was observed among the three groups.
1
Don't talk, she said, and that lovely voice was reedy and wasted.
2
All the water seems to drain into the reedy swamp and clay-pans.
3
She leans closer to Anna, lowering her voice to a reedy whisper.
4
Their reedy sibilance built steadily until the spaceplane rocked on its undercarriage.
5
Reuel, now throwing one reedy leg over the side of the cab.
1
Yet for some reason it was sold as a weedy teen romance.
2
There is then a struggle between the weedy shrubs and the grass.
3
A pleasant odor of sealing-wax dominated the weedy smell of the canal.
4
I couldn't wait to be self-reliant on every weedy inch of it.
5
Peter splashed across a muddy creek, then skirted around several weedy bogs.
1
A good test is to tap the boney lump with a knuckle.
2
There are actually boney quill knobs that are present on its forearm.
3
The boy flicked the big, boney horse with his whip and looked thoughtful.
4
You're dragging that boney-ass body of yours up these stairs.
5
The patient had normal stature; without rachitic or boney deformities or a history of fractures.
1
A short, scraggy white beard covered the lower part of the face.
2
Over the uneven scraggy promontory, blinded by the fierce sunlight, Annadoah staggered.
3
You're lucky you didn't get your scraggy ass blown to kingdom come.
4
Presently they saw a house smoking under a scraggy clump of eucalyptus.
5
His scraggy throat was adorned with a black neckerchief like a boot-lace.
Usage of skinny in English
1
There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.' That's one of them.
2
Although skinny and in need of food, there were no obvious wounds.
3
I hope the skinny branch is strong enough to hold my weight.
4
Spain are in their new kit: cravats, neckerchiefs and red skinny jeans.
5
Dozens of long, skinny, single-story warehouses run parallel down toward the water.
6
She spoke in panting gasps, the death-rattle sounding in her skinny throat.
7
Virgil compared this graph with similar ones from a long skinny book.
8
Too skinny and afraid of smudging her lipstick to be any good.
9
She looked too skinny, a good ten pounds lighter than Alice remembered.
10
Wilson turned, a skinny Ahab who had momentarily finished with the sea.
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Actually, nearly all the boundary of our long, skinny property is hedge.
12
Orson assessed the tall, skinny man on the far left and smiled.
13
The trailer of this rig consists of a single long skinny room.
14
His skinny friend was obviously the assistant manager of their criminal enterprise.
15
Let her words sink into your skinny head: It was definitely shocking.
16
The only issue will be the skinny track that is The Valley.
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Skinny across language varieties
Australia
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