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  • So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
  • I thought all my relo's in America were skinny… like the one's here.
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  • Among them was a very skinny, red-haired girl.
  • Wear over skinny cigarette trousers with a boxy jacket. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Yes | No | Report from steve182 wrote 22 hours 48 min ago looks like a skinny horsetail protruding from the center of the chest. QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt.
  • My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
  • He pulled over, struggling with the words to the classic song by that skinny girl who died in a closet.
  • "I'm a vegan and I looked awfully skinny at one point, " she explains.
  • They ran us off so we headed off to a secluded spot on the Clinch river and skinny-dipped there. Spot-On: Status Quo
  • The skinny: With seven teams among the top 35 in RPI, this could be one of the most entertaining and wide-open events this week. 2008 conference tournament capsules
  • It isn't an easy read, mostly because the skinny format abbreviates names to three letters, often beyond recognition.
  • This super crunchy coating turns out to be ultra-skinny noodles.
  • Other fashion houses will be crying into their skinny lattes after seeing these two cheek to cheek. The Sun
  • There's also a table with three skinny legs and a lidded jar with a thick, straight, vertical handle that rises up like the rod of a butter churn.
  • My … brother had quite a hand in brokering the accords, she said nodding across the room to a skinny bloke in a well-fitted tuxedo who was making his way onto the verandah Rose had disappeared onto. The Boundaries of Consent (1/3)
  • Some of us even want a skinny mocha decaff latte with a twist.
  • Simply swapping it for a regular skinny could save you 119 kcal and 6.2 grams of saturated fat. The Sun
  • At that point, the probe drops down on a tether that is as skinny as a shoelace, to keep it a safe distance away when the lander's retrorockets fire.
  • If I've misjudged the hot pants, then what else? The treggings and shoe-boot combination? The T-shirt dress and the skinny jeans? Are my feet too old for gladiator sandals?
  • He was skinny and bendy and flexible. The Sun
  • Capes, big brass buttons, skinny knits belted over print dresses, together with marvellously subtle colour combinations made for one of the most beautiful collections in Milan.
  • Cars run on skinny snow tyres in Sweden, with sharp studs to penetrate the icy surface and find good grip underneath.
  • Fan of the skinny latte? Times, Sunday Times
  • They are pale skinny people who look half-dead.
  • Dawg has not consumed supermarket ground beef since that scandal but buys his own round or chuck and grinds it at home with a sufficient amount of fat to assure the somewhat rotund Dawg that he does not shrink to skinny-fartdom and look like some Godawful feo Chapala shrimp on a motorbike who thinks he is Marlon Brando but has more in common with Boy George. The big chapala beef beef
  • He's a skinny, nervous looking man with greasy black hair and bruises on his face.
  • Would Steve McQueen have been a skinny latte man?
  • You can spot these on skinny girls wearing hipster clothing.
  • Here's the skinny on the two basic types of paint.
  • When they were forced by the scientists to gain weight, the skinny people still kept up their fidgety ways.
  • Skinny suggests active. Skinny is more fashionable, more streetwise, more plugged-in, but not if you are seen to be struggling to maintain it.
  • The teal colour is perfect this season and you can team it with shirts, blouses or skinny jumpers. The Sun
  • We wonder what the response would be if we went in and asked for a skinny hazelnut latte.
  • But believe your mom when she says a skinny caramel macchiato is 222 calories. Times, Sunday Times
  • A great number sat huddled together and cowered down under each gunya, their skinny limbs being so folded before their bodies that the head rested upon the knees. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
  • October 27th, 2006 at 12: 39 am paris hiton is ugly skinny and useless her eyes are too squinty and those boobs are fake shes soo vain and whoever said she was beautiful must be blind now catherine zeta jones is beautiful liv tyler is beauyiful lots of actresses are beautiful mbut paris not much of a looker at all elliosh Says: David Letterman Interviews Paris Hilton
  • Last among the rowers was my category: sliding-seat racing singles - skinny, tippy fiberglass shells nearly as long and light as those rowed in the Olympics.
  • In order to generate grip on the icy gravel roads, all cars run on skinny studded snow tyres that bite through snow into the harder surfaces underneath.
  • Is Doc Hunt the skinny beanpole with the frizzy hair and geeky looking glasses? Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’
  • Making the seasonal switch most summers from skinny salads to hearty game dishes is taxing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forget being skinny; put on a bit of weight, hon.
  • Then I just noticed how skinny he was, almost gaunt.
  • Chances are, if you do not find skinny jeans or leggings a flattering choice for your figure, you won't find jeggings flattering either.
  • You might wince at the thought of the hard, narrow saddles used by serious cyclists, but skinny saddles are better for your body. Times, Sunday Times
  • Personally, I think the best way to wear skinny jeans is to pair them with long shirts or short shift dresses.
  • Break into a public swimming pool at 3 a.m. and go skinny-dipping.
  • Not that it was a particularly memorable movie in my opinion, but one character stood out and left a lasting impression: the skinny geek with the moon tan who posed for a photograph in his revolting scungy old undies.
  • Bear this in mind the next time you queue for an overpriced cup of skinny latte. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most of its passages were very skinny, much too skinny for the cacodaemons I'd populated it with.
  • He was a skinny teenager in camo pants and a helmet, striking a pose with a machine gun, and a similar photo of another young guy: on the back it said "Woody Herald - killed on Guadalcanal.
  • There's a reason Mitchell, a skinny, gangly sophomore, looked like him.
  • If you're going down the sock route, the easiest way is with skinny jeans. Times, Sunday Times
  • A skinny wisp of a young woman entered the room, timidly opening the door to the side to allow her entrance.
  • Lower, even, than the time that one toddler in the library storytime group was drawn by the tractor beam radiating from the butt crack exposed by your – yes, again – low-riding skinny jeans and stuck his hand down there and yelled BUM! You Know That You’re THAT MOM When… | Her Bad Mother
  • On two sides, the garden is really just a grassy walkway flanked by skinny beds and a few flowering trees. Times, Sunday Times
  • He could do many, many things, although he was small and skinny for his age.
  • Ten years ago we didn't just hang out in coffee bars, paying more for a skinny cappuccino than we did for real drinks.
  • Hundreds of skinny, barefooted, dust-covered imps beg outsiders for money, pens and sweets - the adults are a little more reticent.
  • A skinny blond in a blue-and-white-striped bikini sprayed himself with water from a plastic plant-mister.
  • I was still so skinny and depressed that - I could really run a long ways, and I needed to run in order to not konk myself over the head with the heel of a cowboy boot and die. I Do Not Support The Troops
  • February 4th, 2008 at 8: 40 pm chodin says: forgetting sarah marshall: sort of like jean bennet ramsey, but with a fat/skinny guy combo and a lot less laughs. ‘FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL’ R TRAILER
  • She went back into the kitchen and watched Skinny dice a potato into a dozen pieces.
  • In the next-door compound, a burly man was whacking a skinny boy with a thick stick.
  • Squatting somewhere between MGMT, The Inbetweeners and Derek Zoolander, this modern incarnation is all mouth and skinny trousers. Why do people hate hipsters?
  • Ms. Comstock, who said roughly a third of her customers are Chinese, started making 'skinny' chocolate-chip and pistachio cookies especially for them.
  • Teaming a checked shirt with a grey vest, she showed off her slim legs in a pair of form-fitting skinny jeans.
  • I know your music isn't much chop but you're a nice girl, and I'd gladly shout you a skinny decaf latte.
  • The box jacket and skinny polo neck will be my go-to pieces for work. The Sun
  • Skinny strips of chicken are quickly cooked in a softened muddle of onion and ginger with a hint of chilli and lemon. Times, Sunday Times
  • It began when I noticed that whole milk was being used in a skinny latte. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm not going to wear leggings under a denim miniskirt or stiletto-heeled boots with skinny jeans and a gold-trimmed gilet.
  • I have on a pair of very tight drainpipe trousers, shirt and skinny tie, and a jacket whose thin lapels are partly hidden by a row of tiny badges featuring the names of punk bands.
  • A very skinny girl wandered in silently a few seconds later.
  • As the teenagers tentatively waded into the brown muck, a skinny, worn-out alcoholic teetered over from his broken-down pickup.
  • But anarchy soon arrived in the form of a skinny ingénue insisting on a boy's bag.
  • Sophisticated cigarette pants with ankle zips will gain acceptance and as will sexy skinny, second skin fitting trousers as close as leggings.
  • Skinny, vampy and a little scary in a mirrored slip that resembles chain mail, she obviously favours action over dialogue; there are no dedications or scene-setting preambles.
  • She was a skinny girl with flame red hair and a million freckles.
  • The magazine plays a lot of lip service to homosexuality and bisexuality, but so long as they are sexy, skinny, trendy urban hipsters.
  • The Crystal StairAug. 5th, 2008 | 11: 02 pm raecarson gives the skinny here, but the short version (and can the skinny have a short version?) is that "The Crystal Stair," the novelet we co-authored, will be appearing in an upcoming issue (or more likely issues -- I always have issues) of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the new literary adventure fantasy magazine. Sale! The Crystal Stair
  • It could just be the light, but she looks pretty wan to me, and too skinny - like the one in four women under 25 who now describe themselves as vegetarians.
  • The box jacket and skinny polo neck will be my go-to pieces for work. The Sun
  • And skinny. just a bunch of bones.
  • According to Baker, too much sodium can make your skinny skirts trickier to zip up, especially in the week prior to menstruation.
  • From our seats we view huge bulls bellowing like gladiators and bowlegged, skinny-bottomed cowboys in chaps nonchalantly smoking rollups.
  • There's also a skinny-dipping erotic fantasia involving a catfish, and comic discourses on karma. Roads Less Taken, Spirits Awakened
  • She is very bony and slim; she is unhealthy skinny for being only twenty-eight.
  • The six-hour hike to the site winds past streams, pools, and smaller waterfalls, all perfect for skinny-dipping.
  • Seeing all those skinny girls in the movies wearing bikinis and their long straight hair and suntans made me feel very Midwestern and un-groovy.
  • I keep picturing their skinny, emaciated frames - did I guess they were addicts?
  • But a too short, too skinny, too old quarterback with a puny arm could be changing that.
  • 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
  • She was tall and skinny, with her blonde hair in two braids on either side of her head.
  • Just take a look at what Browne's wearing today: slim gray flannel trousers that stop several inches above sockless ankles; an unironed white oxford-cloth button-down shirt; a skinny gray tie, and a cashmere cardigan with varsity stripes on the sleeve. SUITS US IF IT SUITS HIM
  • It was quite large for her skinny, beanpole body.
  • We know a mocha from a macchiato, a regular light from a regular skinny, and a Costa Rican from a Sumatra Lingtong.
  • She was a skinny woman, painfully so, and her face was spackled with industrial strength make up. I See Your Face Before Me
  • She aimed at the woman nearest her, a skinny creature with beetroot burns beneath gold jewelry. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • All he needed were his beloved pair of dungarees - the only skinny pair he'd kept, secretly - and a couple of sweatshirts.
  • Skinny trousers look more modern with kitten heels than platform pumps. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some of our favorites are the long, skinny French radishes, French purslane, arugula, mache, salad burnet, lemon verbena, leeks and, of course, all kinds of tomatoes.
  • I took a skinny 4 ply yarn and knitted it double.
  • They had positioned the pillows between his skinny little legs. Christianity Today
  • In the middle of the day, in the middle of the peninsula, we rolled through a long valley landscaped with millions of huge wind-carved boulders, some as big as houses, giant cardon cacti (the saguaro's larger cousins), and tall skinny boojum plants with orange blooms on top - described as upside-down carrots. The Baja Highway from top to bottom
  • They chain-smoked and pushed around skinny underclassmen for laughs.
  • For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • A skinny white thug in a Lakers jersey lunged in my direction with a purpose.
  • I shrink into the shade of a skinny saguaro -- the best available option -- to wait.
  • And Next's oversized knitted gilet would look fabulous over skinny jeans or leather leggings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leather numbers that work as well with jeans as floaty dresses are as much a wardrobe staple as skinny jeans. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Nürnberger is a skinny, short bratwurst, and in Munich and much of Bavaria they eat Weisswurst.
  • What do you do when you’re the morbidly obese fake winner of a reality show, and you’re sick and tired of being upstaged in your seemingly inexistant music videos by the skinny struggling dancers grinding all up in your grill? HEADLINES FROM HELL: Ruben Studdard Starts Modeling Agency | Best Week Ever
  • That'll be two skinny lattes, please. Times, Sunday Times
  • They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
  • One upon a time there was a skinny man whiter than I (by whiter I mean British) who appeared on network television and said the N word uncensored no less than fifteen times, and there was a talk show host who allowed him to do it. Samara O'Shea: The "N" Word on Network Television
  • I wouldn't go in there, though, to the truck stop and ask for a skinny decaf soy latte.
  • This skinny cow is now fattening out under the good care of the stockman.
  • I'll not wear skinny jeans again. The Sun
  • The open back with skinny, spidery straps is totes beautiful.
  • Then there were those university boys she and I picked up at a Karaoke bar and brought back to our cabin for some skinny-dipping.
  • Today we live in a skinny latte world and instant coffee won't do. Times, Sunday Times
  • She stood at about 5'9 and was skinny as a beanpole.
  • On the map, two skinny strips of tan beach came from either side to meet in the center, like the claws of a hard-shell crab. ROUGH JUSTICE
  • As he settled his skinny limbs onto her, reaching to position himself, she pressed her legs together tight for a second, aware she could whip and hog-tie this boy any day of the week, but kissed him once, drawing his hands to her breasts, before she kneed him hard in his privates and pushed him off. Good Country. People.
  • kindbegger's diary kindbegger's Diaryland Diary and he has a skinny mustache. now he is probably five and a half feet away from me. so it's like ashleigh brummer is lying down between him and i. more about lying down in the next entry. And he has a skinny mustache. now he is probably five and a half feet away from me. so it's like ashleigh brummer is lying down between him and i. more about lying down in the next entry.
  • Its head rose long and narrow from a skinny neck, so that the warty, wattled face seemed to float in front of the rest of it. A TIME OF WAR
  • Skinny drainpipe jeans and trousers will soon be the next pants style to adopt, so think carefully when making future new trouser purchases.
  • This skinny milquetoast liberal peacenik pacifist twirp was trying to "out-tough" a five year POW. The 18,000,001st Crack in the Glass Ceiling?
  • The really big shock is how little goes with skinny jeans.
  • I thought they were skinny badgers or fat weasels.
  • Put on a skinny headband, then tease the back of the hair with pomade or hair spray.
  • My skinny body shivered in the cold of the basement pool.
  • The men's magazine praised Timberlake, 28, for his impact on fashion, his willingness to take risks and "knack for targeting trends" including hats, three-piece suits, skinny ties and beards.
  • They are promoting the latest line in beige saggy arsed skinny legged trousers from the shop.
  • Parsnips also make a wonderful soup and terrific fritters, and their long, blond roots are irresistible if roasted until the skinny tails scorch to a crisp.
  • Either way, on Tuesday it is the turn of skinny-tied touchline croucher Andre Villas-Boas to attempt to sate his master's Euro urge as Chelsea kick things off at home against Bayer Leverkusen. The Guardian World News
  • Shinoda never gave up the elements of Japanese writing - ink, brush and paper - but she no longer scrawls tightly controlled kanji on skinny scrolls destined to hang in tokonoma displays.
  • The skinny tailored jacket is back. Times, Sunday Times
  • Especially moe are her overlong sleeves and socks that are always falling down her skinny legs.
  • BREAKFAST: Skinny caramel latte and granola bar. The Sun
  • Many people who are lifestyle athletes as adults were ‘the skinny kids ‘or the klutzes in school.’
  • We've swapped our skinny jeans for yoga pants so athleisure is officially a thing.
  • I also wonder that if the post had been written by a man, whether people would be as quick say that it's OK be "hypocritical" in desiring someone who's culturally-approved skinny when they're not. Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
  • Cialikate had once been as skinny as a stick, not the voluptuous, busty woman she was now at eighteen.
  • Our house was a traditional skinny and long two-story attached home with a brick front stoop, perfect for stoopball. HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY?
  • You might wince at the thought of the hard, narrow saddles used by serious cyclists, but skinny saddles are better for your body. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's all about spatial awareness: Those who walk-n-surf tend to weave to and fro, making them impossible to pass on crowded or skinny sidewalks.
  • The group is hardly emblematic of the genre (which has expanded to include guyliner and skinny jeans) but still commands legions of uberdedicated fans.
  • Skinny jeans, babydoll dresses, peasant tops — all supercute, but you might as well be wearing a Snuggie. Archive 2010-03-01
  • He was barely fifteen and his youthful face and skinny body made him look even younger.
  • Jen fumbled with shaking hands through the skinny glass shelves, knocking everything out. ROUGH JUSTICE
  • That was such a beautiful film Builder's tea or skinny soy latte? Times, Sunday Times
  • The careful tailoring only made her look queerly skinny, not so much a boy as some tattie bogle set out in old clothes to scare the crows. LEVIATHAN
  • This doesn't bother me unduly, aware as I am that the skinny wastrels to whom I'm typically attracted are themselves starting to reach the extent of their appeal as the fruits of their dissipation begin to show in their faces.
  • Tall, skinny guys in white robes and red fezzes lurking close by, hovering like busy British butlers with whisk brooms and bulbous noses. The tenth point of possession being this ...
  • Some rats are clean, sleek and very friendly, but Scram smells bad, is dirty, mangey, skinny and neurotic.
  • He's got the skinny on about $10 million stashed away in an Amsterdam vault.
  • Entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas has the skinny.
  • Our lanky cat, who is two years old and in all respects healthy otherwise, is very skinny.
  • Trouble begins when assorted bits of a skinny-dipping coed turn up on the beach.
  • And someone who will smile politely and clear his plate when the mother in law presents him with her usual pigswill. (apologies to my father for outing his real reason for being so skinny.) Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2006 at 13: 43 yeaaaahhhh, the skinny jean is actually the invention of the devil. Mirror, Mirror On The Wall… @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
  • A thick wedge heel will make really skinny ankles appear even thinner.
  • Tea or skinny soy latte? Times, Sunday Times
  • Team this retro satchel with skinny jeans and a rock T-shirt for preppy chic with a twist. The Sun
  • He hangs out with the suedes at Bido Lito's and gets up and plays this godawful tenor sax whenever they let him, which is frequently, 'cause who wants to refuse a crazy man, even a little skinny twerp like Tommy? White Jazz
  • One by one, shadowy, transparent figures of skinny, bony people appeared all around.
  • The youngest was skinny and shapeless in a flowery dress.
  • Tom was yawning sleepily, and Lily was already napping peacefully on his skinny shoulder.
  • I hate to use the word waif, but what else can you call all these skinny young hairless guys? NYT > Home Page
  • She was tall, just under six foot, with a long whippy body that wasn't skinny but carried no extra flesh. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • As for jeans, the backlash has begun on skinny jeans in women's fashion — bell-bottom versions have made frightening appearances on runways — and will follow in men's as well, though hopefully in a more understated way. No Headline Available
  • Now, at the mere mention of his long-ago battle, Sy uttered a mournful howl, fell to his knees, and covered his head with his skinny arms.
  • Morley Schloss, now the 69-year-old majority shareholder of Sunsport Gardens, skinny-dipped for the first time at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. Wearing Only a Smile, Nudists Seek Out the Young and the Naked
  • Builders' tea or skinny soya latte? Times, Sunday Times
  • How many weird skinny dogs with spindly legs, cow spots and Dalmation daubs can there be in this world?
  • A park volunteer who was doing a gar census near where we were a gar is a skinny fish that becomes as big as fifty pounds, and is distinguished by an extremely long, thin nose handed me his binoculars and I got a good close-up of the alligator's face. Notes From Central Florida: Alligators and Angels Abound
  • Pair with skinny trousers to avoid looking bulky. Times, Sunday Times
  • All I'm saying is that we're 7 years overdue for skinny ties and narrow lapels.
  • Q. I'm trying to find a pair of skinny jeans to tuck into a pair of cool boots I have.
  • Ectomorph is a skinny beanpole, endomorph is short and bulky — they could train for years and never make it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apart from her chest, which she keeps covered, she strips off her skinny jeans and sweatshirt with abandon. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here, have some bread, have some cheese, don't be so skinny.
  • I was really skinny and flat-chested, and I always wanted breasts.
  • These are the concerns that skinny people never have to think about.
  • Everyone knows someone skinny that thinks they're hench.
  • The boy possesses the uncanny ability to eat like an elephant and remain as skinny as a stick.
  • I have a little inside skinny on M.I.A.'s progress - a friend of mine named Dylan is running sound for her tour.
  • The basic small-car brands cover a wide variety of vehicles moving up from skinny-tired econobox sedans selling for less than $10,000 to fully optioned convertibles on the far side of $20,000.
  • As skinny Mother Proudfoot rushed into the room followed by two other Priestesses, he did his best to begin a levitation spell. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
  • The Beatles made skinny pants and collarless jackets the rage!
  • But also that the diminutive singer remains skinny, which was key. Times, Sunday Times
  • The days when you can buy a ‘double de-caf skinny hazelnut latté with a twist of lemon and two brown sugars’ in a can may soon be upon us.
  • We used to go skinny-dipping in a brook not far from here through the woods.
  • I have on a pair of very tight drainpipe trousers, shirt and skinny tie, and a jacket whose thin lapels are partly hidden by a row of tiny badges featuring the names of punk bands.
  • I mean, it's bad enough the media portrays that we should be blonde, blue-eyed and skinny.
  • The skinny adolescent is dressed to kill in a black sheath dress, gloves and a straw pillbox hat with a veil.
  • You might wince at the thought of the hard, narrow saddles used by serious cyclists, but skinny saddles are better for your body. Times, Sunday Times
  • To enter this realm is to fervently believe that such a physique is not exclusive to the genetically gifted but is attainable by anybody, young or old, male or female, fat or skinny, rich or poor.

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