scrawniness

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• The cat was so small and scrawny that Mike’s mother decided he needed a big name.

• I asked a scrawny 15-year-old boy who works at a candy packaging facility about how he sees his future.

• Toward the end of the cycle, the birds are scrawnier, their fat stores depleted over the months of cold, so they tend to start huddling at warmer temperatures.

• If scrawny little Tutankhamun can do it, a badass like Khufu could probably cause them to spontaneously combust.

• He was still achieving in school and sports, though less brilliantly than before, and was somewhat small and scrawny.

• He grew up a scrawny kid with nagging allergy problems in a suburb of Stockholm.

• A few are recovering from eating disorders; their cheeks are hollow and their scrawny arms droop like slack rubber bands.

• She bore Marneffe a child, a stunted, scrawny urchin named Stanislas.

• Bluish dawnlight seemed to tint their scrawny bare arms and legs a deeper, ghastly blue.

• Their sales of scrawny cattle jist about paid the taxes en bought their salt en terbacker.

• A stub of a root and two scrawny plum branches would at any time arouse my imagination like the circus posters' appeal to a boy.

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