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Meanings of skinny in English
Giving or spending with reluctance.
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Examples for "tight-fitting"
Examples for "tight-fitting"
1
In order to breathe, they wore simple tight-fitting masks inside the suits.
2
There is a tight-fitting, see-through tempered glass lid, which we consider essential.
3
He was dressed in a highly embroidered tight-fitting deerskin coat and leggings.
4
The usual uniform for lacrosse is a tight-fitting jersey and running trousers.
5
A heavy-duty saucepan with a tight-fitting lid is fine for preparing rice.
1
Use a tennis ball having a netted or tightly fitting linen cover.
2
Note: It's essential to have stiffsoled boots and tightly fitting crampons.
3
This is achieved by inserting tightly fitting solenoids into a box from soft-magnetic material.
4
They have tightly fitting jerkins of well-tanned leather, their arms are spears and battleaxes.
5
They connect with one another below, and are closed with tightly fitting limestone plugs.
1
He was clad in tightfitting sage-green felt, so it appeared, with a superfluity of straps, buttons, lacings, and harness of all sorts.
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.
11
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 through the time
Skinny across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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