Synonym: boney, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, osseous, osteal, pinched, skeletal, wasted. Similar words: ebony, bone, bond, pony, bonus, bonds, phony, irony. Meaning: ['bəʊnɪ] adj. 1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold 2. composed of or containing bone 3. having bones especially many or prominent bones.
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61. Perhaps Lucy would have melted weakly into his bony arms had not an expression of dismay and incredulity come over his face.
62. The trigger, which gives the fish its name, is the leading ray of its dorsal fin which has become bony.
63. As Ornithischosus increased in size its scaly skin replaced the bony armour as the danger from predators lessened.
64. He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees.
65. Parenti even suggests substituting beef shanks for oxtails; which are bony, like oxtails, but meatier.
66. In some forms,[http://sentencedict.com/bony.html] the whole of the head and body was encased in a cuirass of bony plates.
67. Mr Barraza stopped at the top of the stairs and put a huge hand on my bony shoulder.
68. Skate - he imagined that was one of those flat bony fish, with the teeth showing in a sardonic grin.
69. She kept glancing at the massive Mickey Mouse watch that dangled round her thin bony wrist.
70. He had a bony wizened face and an unhealthy pallor.
71. She walks down the line, awkwardly hugging each player with her long, bony arms.
72. Nails grabbed him, locked his bony arm round the shrinking body and jumped in with him.
73. In one bony hand he clutched an oak club driven through with rusty nails.
74. These small cerebellar projections - we call them the tonsils - have been compressed against the bony rim of the foramen magnum.
75. The other end attached to a bony spot on the mandible, or lower jaw.
76. Four soaring steeples are honeycombed with cavities, revealing them to be the bony skeleton of support they are.
77. He wore homemade sandals and a sarong that fell from his waist to his bony knees.
78. He was a bony young man with slicked-down hair and a stiff white collar several sizes too large.
79. His bony wrist snaked out, towards the trailing end of the bull's rope.
80. It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the bony fish in the economy of the sea.
81. There is not a smooth trajectory connecting these bony fish ancestors to flatfish lying on their belly.
82. We see this process of moving round re-enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish.
83. His thin bony hand going out to the young man Hugh Bawn.
84. They made an odd pair, she bony and remote, he heavy, grubby and vaguely disreputable.
85. The whole skull of a bony flatfish retains the twisted and distorted evidence of its origins.
86. The organ most at risk is the brain, being enclosed within a rigid bony shell.
87. But just as the other woman was bony and edgy, this one was well padded.
88. Rubberneck chewed his fingernails; they were long bony fingers, bitten to the quick.
89. In the center, a woman I had never seen before began stroking a deck of cards with bony hands.
90. The flesh was thinly spread upon the elongated skull, the motionless hands were bony claws.