adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
thin/bony shoulders
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She put her arm around the girl’s thin shoulders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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Six feet tall, he was in his forties, had a long bony face tapering to a pointed jaw.
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A wooden corner hit the pursuer in the bony face and Creed was relieved to observe it stagger.
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I watch his long, bony face .
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She was thin, with a bony face and bulging, frightened eyes.
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The high, arched eyebrows in the long bony face rose slightly in surprise, but no more.
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The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean, bony face and narrow eyes.
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The chief himself became the figurehead of a car; his bony face was aerodynamically restyled to suit this role.
finger
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Rubberneck chewed his fingernails; they were long bony fingers , bitten to the quick.
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I felt her bony finger on my shoulder.
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Whirling round on his toes, he kept stabbing towards his fellow member of staff with his long, bony fingers .
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We touch his bony fingers and hands, uncover his face and look at him.
fish
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They are among the most primitive on bony fish , though their skeleton consists largely of cartilage.
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Eventually bony fish with swim bladders appeared in the sea.
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Sharks in general aren't flattened from side to side as free-swimming bony fish like herrings are.
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There is not a smooth trajectory connecting these bony fish ancestors to flatfish lying on their belly.
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Skate - he imagined that was one of those flat bony fish , with the teeth showing in a sardonic grin.
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Paddlefish are bony fish related to the Sturgeon.
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Unlike sharks, bony fish as a rule have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction.
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It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the bony fish in the economy of the sea.
hand
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He held on to her, stroking the poor little bony hand holding fast to his.
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In the center, a woman I had never seen before began stroking a deck of cards with bony hands .
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Such a long, bony hand .
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His thin bony hand going out to the young man Hugh Bawn.
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In one bony hand he clutched an oak club driven through with rusty nails.
shoulder
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Mr Barraza stopped at the top of the stairs and put a huge hand on my bony shoulder .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bony fingers
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Kinsit, a naturally small woman with a thin, bony face, found gaining weight difficult.
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Now that she was older, Jean's bony fingers and wrists were too small for her jewelry.
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When I picked up the cat it felt as bony as a skeleton.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Five or six sparrows instantly alighted on my arms and head, gripping my skin with their bony little claws.
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I shook hands with her, startled how bony and warm her hand felt in mine.
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In the center, a woman I had never seen before began stroking a deck of cards with bony hands.
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She was frail and bony , her hands looking as clumsy as gardening gloves on her narrow wrists.
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Something gurgled in Ma Katz's throat, and the dead woman collapsed in a bony heap.
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The fused, bony plates that protect their soft parts make them well-nigh invulnerable.
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The organ most at risk is the brain, being enclosed within a rigid bony shell.
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The trigger, which gives the fish its name, is the leading ray of its dorsal fin which has become bony .