How To Use Scrawny In A Sentence

He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair. BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
I have been told that many of them wear patent complexions, "boughten" bangs, and pad out scrawny forms until they appear voluptuous Junos, and thereby deceive and ensnare, bedazzle and beguile the unsuspecting sons of men. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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It was obvious that not only the last, but all the other muezzin calls had come from the scrawny throat of my son. LION IN THE VALLEY

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She felt to hug him but was afraid to hurt; like a fragile bird, this new scrawny Rab.
He was a scrawny, chicken-necked sack of bones, but in spite of his handicap he moved faster than the others.
His once dirty blond hair had become a light, sandy brown and his scrawny build had been filled out with muscles.
The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
The moderate Republican Schwarzenegger had criticized Obama in his only appearance of the general election campaign with John McCain - the Friday before the election in Columbus, Ohio, site of Schwarzenegger's annual Arnold Classic sports festival - as "scrawny" and a big taxer. William Bradley: Obama's California: The Arnold Alliance and More
Staying thin when you're older makes your face look scrawny. Times, Sunday Times
That's why marathon runners look scrawny but sprinters are built like tanks. The Sun
Never on a lead, it waddles beside him as macho, musclebound and menacing as its scrawny owner aspires to be. Times, Sunday Times
Back then, the pale, scrawny 14-year-old with bandy legs and crooked teeth was as far removed from the healthy, sporty look epitomised by Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson as you could get.
Each bag had a label stuck to it, with scrawny writing listing a grid reference and sometimes a field name, but many labels had lost their glue, slipped off, and gathered in the bottom of the box. A Year on the Wing
You're established and then, all of a sudden, some young scrawny kid comes out of the youth team and takes your place in the side.
A few scrawny chickens were scratching around the yard.
From outside-we see this scrawny bloke in the frame of the doorway, in his grey underpants.
Mother hen hatches her eggs in a farmyard and finds one of her baby chicks is a scrawny, ugly duck.
They were scrawny but muscly trashy types, like my in-and-out, in-and-out of prison psycho cousin.
He is skeletal and scrawny with his minuscule bones poking through his clothes.
The gene -- called scrawny because of the appearance of mutant adult flies -- appears to be a key factor in keeping a variety of stem cells in their undifferentiated state, the researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology say in an article to be published Friday in the journal Science. Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
The way his mother tells it, Allen was a scrawny kid who the high school football players used to carry to class on their shoulders.
In real life, the sousaphonist is always some scrawny schmuck who only wanted to play concert tuba for the Christmas pageant so his parents would have pictures.
I mean, OK, this schmoe is about 5'8 , maybe 160# soaking wet; short, scrawny, and greying. Served
Governor Schwarzenegger saying he would help Barack Obama work on what he called his scrawny legs and also his skinny biceps as well. CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008
A scrawny dog lay in the doorway of a hut, yawning widely.
Looking scrawny and with full beards, the men wave at the camera, make victory signs and link arms to sing the national anthem. The Sun
The scrawny swarthy-skinned kid in the mirror blinked back at him.
a long scrawny neck
Arnold Schwarzenegger, apparently filling in for "Joe the Plumber," told a John McCain rally in Columbus, Ohio, this afternoon that Obama has "scrawny" legs, among other things. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama at Wicker Park - Gary, Indiana
I'm tired of being the 5'7 115lb runt in a group of much larger kids, and i'm tired of clothes bagging off of my scrawny body.
After years of wrestling scrawny teenagers, his dedication is actually put to the test when he will have to pick on someone his own size.
The young soldier's competitor was a big burly man with beefy arms and legs the size of tree trunks, while the young duelist was small and scrawny - barely half the big man's size.
I always remember him as a rather scrawny kid who used to ref our senior games when the official referee didn't turn up.
On either side of me stand scrawny vines abundant with blackish grapes.
He looks scrawny and vulnerable. Times, Sunday Times
I dunno, Hrairoo is a bit scrawny to be served up Peking Duck style, as he may not have enough fat on him to protect the meat while it air-dries. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
If they're scrawny, they appear scrawnier still. Times, Sunday Times
At its worst, the catwalk is a place for scrawny beauties in outlandish clothes that often seem utterly divorced from reality. Times, Sunday Times
A scrawny opossum foraged along the road, scampering toward the woods when I tried to take its picture.
He left the office and road hard for a while before arriving at a ranch, where he was greeted by a tall and scrawny man with a long, thin mustache.
He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
He came home after three months at college looking terribly scrawny.
It does not mean by this that a scrawny pullet is of more importance than family honor; it simply means that the man who steals a pullet is a cowardly thief, while the one who ignores the advances of a pretty woman is an incorrigible idiot. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
If you look up the word bedraggled in the dictionary, there will be an image of my 4 rain soaked scrawny birds, standing on one foot, so close together they look attached. Chickens, a Beach Umbrella, and HOT Grits
Only that I look too scrawny. Times, Sunday Times
He was scrawny out of the water but pretty sleek in it, though he didn’t kick and neither did any of the other octo- and septuagenarians who swam around me. In the Fullness of Time
Unable to find it she sank down and sat on the ground with her back against two scrawny trees.
A scrawny dapple-grey mare wearing a battered saddle stood there, reins trailing, lathered with sweat and blowing clouds of vapor. Conqueror's Moon
The capuchin is a New World monkey, brown and cute, the size of a scrawny year-old human baby plus a long tail. Monkey Business | Impact Lab
Mary admits her youngest son was a scrawny little chap who became a beanpole youngster, so gangly he needed elastic in his school trousers to make sure they stayed up.
Gollum is ugly, scrawny, cunning, sneaky - and, by the time The Return of the King starts, completely irredeemable.
Fred, somehow, manages to be even more absurd than Eleanor, dressed in a skin-tight harlequin outfit that makes him look like a scrawny fool.
Beside her the pathetic corpse of the servant, the garotte cord still round his scrawny neck.
I wanted to wring his scrawny little neck.
Nice? she wanted to scream, wanted to grab those scrawny arms in that cheap white dress and demand, Nice?
Presumeably she doesn't possess the moral fibre of Superman - or perhaps after years of being married to scrawny Scott Free, she enjoyed the opprtunity for a bit of super-rumpy-pumpy. Cool Comic Cover Gallery – Super(Ladies)Man | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
There's no more scrawny chicken wings. Times, Sunday Times
And the belt buckles are sometimes bigger around than my scrawny waist.
A man raked together a little burning rubbish with one hand and dangled a scrawny chicken over it with the other. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
After kicking, cursing and fighting for her life, her fingers were pried off the wheel by the men, whom she described as scrawny but determined as ever to take her car. News from www.rep-am.com
There were a few scrawny chickens in the yard.
He returned to Cameroon to visit in 2004, where even friends found it hard to believe that the strapping lad before them was the same scrawny kid who had seen his football dream shattered.
She felt to hug him but was afraid to hurt; like a fragile bird, this new scrawny Rab.
Giggling toddlers play among scrawny chickens and bleating goats.
They are scrawny and look unhealthy. The Sun
I'm naturally a pretty scrawny guy, so we cut out cardio entirely and just focused on bulking up.
The women are slags, either scrawny with straggly blonde hair, or grotesquely fat and bulging out of their tracksuit bottoms.
My stomach lurched as I threw myself at Roahin, doing anything I could to wring his scrawny, traitorous, lying, cheating little neck.
Wasn't there some scrawny woman called Emma, and a big oaf who was in love with her?
They entered a small room, divided unequally by a barrier desk; behind it stood a lean, coffee-sallowed young man with a scrawny neck displayed to the uttermost by a standing collar scarcely taller than the band of a shirt. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
The old cat, the one that that appeared all scrawny and mewling at her door some six years ago, pulled a disappearing act on them all, just as they all had big projects to finish.
They grew maize, potatoes, onions and millet and kept a few scrawny chickens to sell to the houses where strangers could eat for money. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
I pull him closer, pinching his scrawny bottom.
They were scrawny little things and their eyes had that slightly sunken in look from malnutrition.
A pindling scrawny little thing, about ten years old. Gigolo
The man was tall and thin, resembling a scrawny tree, as the black robes he was swathed in covered him from neck to toe in a most unflattering style.
I was a geeky, scrawny, underweight kid who liked strange music and didn't fit in at all.
There were a number of carefully segregated piles of pipes, rusted auto parts, and other assorted items between which half a dozen scrawny chickens clucked and pecked their way through the dirt.
Behind her scuffled two scrawny roosters, whose red, fleshy combs hung raggedly on the scabrous skin of their necks. DANSVILLE
Its bagginess on the scrawny Pope's shoulders contrasts with the taut, nailed-down stretch of the upholstered velvet of his chair.
Inside the gas station, Tom talks to George, who is a thin, blond-haired, scrawny fellow.
The little girl was scrawny and short, very plain, and had frightened eyes that were focused on the two needles she was trying to knit with.
Paws thudded on the ground nearby, and a small scrawny wolf darted out of the brush, headed in an erratic fashion to the path.
'You know, I think just about everybody who's ever met that scrawny rascal feels exactly the same way about him. THE TREASURED ONE
They lie on pavements, sheltering from the sun under scrawny trees.
Sorry, but Bugs was a one-dimensional, predictable rabbit who had not a redeeming bone in his entire scrawny body.
As for main courses, the vegetarian tamales are tasty if scrawny pillows of cornmeal that conceal punchy red and green anaheim peppers.
Their scrawny legs and toeless feet could barely walk; their arms and torso were grotesquely skeletal with almost no muscle at all.
Vincent had once called her scrawny, perhaps Philippe was finding her unattractively thin? WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Many people still live in mud huts, grow all their own food, and rely on the one scrawny cow in the back yard for subsistence.
I just looked at this scrawny little bundle and burst into tears. The Sun
She was scrawny, dangerously thin some said, and stiff, as though her bones ached.
I am a rather pale scrawny blue-eyed ectomorph of nearly pure Northern European ancestry, as far as I can tell. The Volokh Conspiracy » 3. The Practical Costs of Condemning Openness to Distressing Answers on Factual Questions
He was really lanky and scrawny but other than that he looked perfectly normal, other than the snotty business around his nose area.
Scrawny and pale, with a mop of scruffy black hair and watery grey eyes, he looked sickly and weak.
Schwarzenegger stirred a little controversy when he called Obama "scrawny" during the presidential primaries, but, ironically, it was the Governor who couldn't do the heavy lifting that real change in health care requires. Jamie Court: What Obama Can Learn from Arnold
He knew he was taking a risk, but there was something about this scrawny little ragamuffin which made him feel desperately sorry for her.
I don't know about plants, and the only birds I have seen around the orphanage are crows, purple grenadiers, and the scrawny chickens that will eventually end up on the supper table.
Executives point to increased regulatory pressures as well as scrawny profit margins on underwriting new state and local government issues.
A half-dozen scrawny sheep blatted at the travelers’ approach.
He looks much too skinny / scrawny to be a weight - lifter.
The kid was scrawny and tall with a necktie way too small and a short-sleeved dress shirt that was way too big.
The obvious disdain that when into creating scrawny white people with dirt obscuring their mouths, thin hair, round heads, caved in chests and potbellies was obvious. ART AND REPRESENTATION » Sociological Images
The straggly, scrawny kid who grabs a guitar in hopes of finally getting some kind of attention from the girls other than sneers and spitballs is no more.
A scrawny nebbish of a man, Moss is no Moore, to be sure.
Red screamed, " How can you be so strong when you're so scrawny?
She was scrawny and flea-ridden, but her manners were impeccable as she gently placed her paw on my arm, as if to lay claim to me.
The other was short, and scrawny, with a babyish pout and white blonde hair.
That frail, scrawny, wiry physique of his, observed in a football strip from 50 yards away in a press-box, only told half the story.
A feisty, scrawny white guy is frantically attacking the black guy.
He was something to look at, despite an ordinary face with infolded lips, a scrawny neck. 'Fine Just the Way It Is'
They had been beaten by a puny little girl, at least eight inches shorter and scrawny.
Suddenly, from nowhere, two scrawny young cadres step out from behind the bushes, pointing their rifles at us.
Parween was tiny; her brothers even called her scrawny. Lipstick in Afghanistan
That, and my own realization as a teenager that when I gained weight, it was my biceps becoming more masculine note: *more* masculine, not masculine - they're still pretty scrawny that caused the change. My fat (but actually very normal-sized) legs
I want a beefcake for a boyfriend and not some scrawny shrimp.
This guy might just save their scrawny necks. The Sun
Between the plants, a couple of dozen scrawny chickens spend the day scratching. Times, Sunday Times
A man raked together a little burning rubbish with one hand and dangled a scrawny chicken over it with the other. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
I honestly thought Cam ‘in person’ would be your usual scrawny writer/artist type.
He came home after three months at college looking terribly scrawny.
The yelping canines were already lashed to the spitrun, turning a scrawny herdbeast that had been set to roast. DragonFlight
When Macbeth is hunched over, scrawny and half bald he does not radiate a sinister charisma.
The stillness of the scene was suddenly disrupted when a scrawny dog ran into view.
Jig's scrawny (even for a goblin) but smart (for a goblin), and as he gets himself further and further into heroicstrouble his main priority is just keeping himself alive while coping with the totally alien (and to his gobliny viewpoint, * incredibly stupid* and yet somehow effective) adventuring party. Argh.
Watching this scrawny 17 year old scramble with all his might in an attempt to get into her truck was hilarious and, somehow, she found it very inspiriting.
Because I looked like somebody who might actually have athletic ability - I've never been what you'd call "scrawny" - I was among the first picked for a team. Vonnegut's Asshole
She made a rather scrawny boy and Bryson's garments hung loosely on her form, but she would pass.
I growled and turned to strangle his scrawny neck, but I quickly remembered I was pinned against the wall.
When Macbeth is hunched over, scrawny and half bald he does not radiate a sinister charisma.
And then eventually it is their turn in front of the scrawny attendant, whose buglike eyes view Peter and Helen with suspicion. The Redleys
Arnold Schwarzenegger, apparently filling in for 'Joe the Plumber,' told a John McCain rally in Columbus, Ohio, this afternoon that Obama has 'scrawny' legs, among other things. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama at Wicker Park - Gary, Indiana
It ' s not a good sign, or portent, or whatever, that the only affecting character in " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 " proves to be the emancipated elf Dobby, a bandy-legged, floppy-eared, scrawny-necked and mostly digital creature — based on Toby Jones ' s performance — who yanks really hard at your heartstrings in his hour of distress. '
Part of me couldn't believe that Cleo would go through such methods just to steal off me, but the other part wanted to wring her scrawny little neck.
They were half-naked it was summer in Houston, so they wore simple breechclouts, they did ride mustangs that were small, unshod, scrawny, and unattractive by European standards. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
The highest price is 151 rupees, attached to a puzzlingly scrawny white bird.
Two young men sit down close by, bright scarves knotted around their scrawny necks, eyeing me speculatively.
A scrawny middle-aged white man emerged from the driver's side. Times, Sunday Times
Nice? she wanted to scream, wanted to grab those scrawny arms in that cheap white dress and demand, Nice?
Perhaps it had just polished off a fat snapper or snook and had no appetite for a couple of scrawny teenagers.
He removed his own coat, putting it around her scrawny shoulders which were trembling slightly, then reached down to place her hand in his.
Hiccup's less-than-macho nature and scrawny physique is not unlike Wart, the hero of Baruchel's childhood favorite, The Sword in the Stone. First look: DreamWorks' 3-D 'How to Train Your Dragon'
Staring down at the scrawny man, Jonah wondered what he had ever been afraid of.
A scrawny opossum foraged along the road, scampering down the berm and toward the woods when I tried to take its picture.
From outside-we see this scrawny bloke in the frame of the doorway, in his grey underpants.
Last time I saw him he was a scrawny kid in Levi's and a dirty T-shirt.
He looked scrawny in his baggy clothes, but I knew that he was very strong.

How To Use Scrawny In A Sentence

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