adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
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The animals must not be diseased, too old or too skinny .
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They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
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I was too skinny to wear the smallest weight belt.
■ NOUN
leg
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This was Olga - even to her skinny legs !
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Her skinny legs and swollen ankles, covered with white stockings, rest unnaturally on the footrests of her chair.
man
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Here was this skinny man , unafraid, in the midst of all this danger.
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I stopped, and the skinny man heard me and turned, Unmistakable.
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He looked up, expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps.
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A tall, skinny man , with a soft voice that sometimes strikes the court as coming from behind his left ear.
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A skinny man who looked as if he didn't sleep nights.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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skinny little kids
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a skinny kid with glasses
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I was really skinny when I was a teenager.
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Jacob placed his arm around her skinny shoulders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the time I'd recovered I was skinnier than ever, having been rationed to an orange a day.
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Even in a bulky warm-up suit, sitting hunched over the handlebars, she looks skinny .
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He had startlingly blue eyes and dark tumbling curls over his forehead; a narrow face; a skinny body.
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I would be a skinny person.
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They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
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They strain every muscle as they pedal; their bodies glisten with sweat; all are skinny , some wasted.
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Think skinny asparagus spears with broccoli tops.