SCRAWNY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SCRAWNY, such as:

1. There were a few scrawny chickens in the yard.
2. Tha'rt not nigh so yeller and tha'rt not nigh so scrawny.
3. They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed.
4. A damned mule, she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCRAWNY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scrawny
 a.  being very thin; inferior in size or quality
Classic Sentence:
1  They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  A damned mule, she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  Tha'rt not nigh so yeller and tha'rt not nigh so scrawny.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  There were a few scrawny chickens in the yard.