His lanky long-boned body. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : beautifully boned; raw-boned; small-boned. ,boned chicken; boned veal. ,boned land. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : Pea soup should be made with a ham bone. ,The administration threw the student protesters a couple of bones, but refused to make any basic changes in the curriculum or requirements. ,Let his bones rest in peace. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to bone a turkey. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : bone tired. From Dictionary.com.
That he couldn't eat oysters unless they were 'boned'. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)] Reference
At once, though almost insensibly, the attitude of Mr. Vanney eased; obviously there was no fear of his being "boned" for a job. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
The probability of you getting "boned" on any transaction with an insurance company is extremely high - I rate this risk in excess of. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The probability of you getting "boned" on any transaction with an insurance company is extremely high - I rate this risk in excess of 90%. From Wordnik.com. [Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas] Reference
It must be boned and neatly filleted into small joints. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
They were large-boned, with ugly heads and short necks. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
She remained tall and big-boned and wide around the waist. From Wordnik.com. [New York Fashion Week champions curves in a catwalk revolution] Reference
The pig must be carefully boned, all but the head and feet. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
"The lamb can also be boned before it is stuffed," she writes. From Wordnik.com. [Why there's more to cookbooks than recipes] Reference
LICHTMAN: It's big boned, and that's actually not a euphemism. From Wordnik.com. [Stocky Dinosaur With Menacing Toes Unearthed] Reference
Judd's big-boned, awkward frame was pointed out with high glee. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
The BMI table needs another category for us "" big boned '' types. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, Weight A Minute!] Reference
A big, raw-boned colt, whom he had named "Chunka Witko," in honor of the Sioux. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Judy boned up on accounting and financial software programs such as Quicken and Excel. From Wordnik.com. [Friendly service, good technicians helped spark Curry's Auto Service expansion] Reference
"As I live, Fred, that is the identical bagman who boned my emerald studs at Jedburgh!". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Corsets boned with whalebone, horn or steel are necessarily stiff, rigid and uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
He was huge, raw-boned, knotty, long of body and long of leg, with the head of a war charger. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
The engineer who no longer engineered looked at her with the boned vision of envy and disgust. From Wordnik.com. [The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter.] Reference
As if he were one with the raw-boned bay he bestrode, he jumped his mount into the waiting pond. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
These must be washed and boned and cut lengthwise, after opening them, making in all eight pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well] Reference
Marya stood up and smoothed her old dress over the big-boned frame all of her husbands had admired. From Wordnik.com. [Hex] Reference
Especially the big-boned, bronze-haired rapper Queen Latifah, whose size only adds to her magnetism. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Of The Beholder] Reference
There was a point to his chin, heavy-angled and thick-boned as it was, it was not an earthman's chin. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
The man was large, raw-boned and brindled, and he, also, walked in, complacently and condescendingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Now that the fowl is boned make the following stuffing, regulating the quantity on the size of the chicken. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well] Reference
"Well, I was looking at your eyes," the lipsticked tiny-boned health freak said, "and they are a bit taupe.". From Wordnik.com. [Kumquat Soda] Reference
He was in his dinner suit, and was quite a dude for such a raw-boned Southerner; he was surprised to see me again. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
Seconds later, as Quiroz watched, the minivan ran the red light and T-boned the car carrying the victims, he told officers. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Gallo Talks About Night Of Nick Adenhart's Death] Reference
The man had big green eyes in deep sockets and there was a certain beauty to his well-boned face that even Fedder could see. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Elegant, witty and tall, with fine-boned features and unflinching blue eyes, he was in some ways an ideal Hamlet or Richard II. From Wordnik.com. [David William obituary] Reference
Anyone who had studied their tactics knew this, and Aidid and at least one of his top lieutenants had boned up under the Soviets. From Wordnik.com. ['Naked' Mission] Reference
The Peacock King waves out one fine-boned, thin hand, a single gesture dismissing all of those assembled in his audience chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1] Reference
Make a sauce of a scant tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley, a shallot, two spoonfuls of pickled gherkins, and a boned anchovy. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
She also seems wise to the chapter that follows, "Don't Be a Groupie ..." insofar as she never boned up on hockey just to please him. From Wordnik.com. [Jag Carrao: Carrie Underwood, Rules Success Story?] Reference
Reinaldo Lourenço, one of Brazil's most accomplished couturiers, built boned '50s-style strapless dresses entirely out of shredded silk. From Wordnik.com. [On the Fringe] Reference
He was a big man -- six feet tall when he stood up, and proportionately heavy, a big-boned frame covered with hard, well-trained muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Viewpoint] Reference
Their own toddler, a big-boned boy who greets visitors with high-fives, is an American citizen reared all his short life in the Green Zone. From Wordnik.com. [Love and War] Reference
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