Example sentences for: scrawny

How can you use “scrawny” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Puerto Vallarta you will find some of the finer ranches with well-cared for horses (the ones at the beaches are apt to be scrawny).

  • When my sister and I, two scrawny specimens of the American "upper-middle class," visit, we always evoke a good deal of concern from relatives.

  • Rich casts New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani--who has threatened to shut down the exhibit of work by a group of young British artists because he thinks it's full of anti-Catholic, "sick stuff"--as a schoolyard tough who likes to pick on scrawny opponents.

  • But, savvy alpha male that he is, he refrained from getting into a gutter brawl with a scrawny, marginal primate such as myself.

  • The tiny black dress of a scrawny girl at a party exposes thin whittled legs ending in vast square-toed ankle boots just perfect for hiking over miles of Himalayan glacier or surviving in the trenches during World War I. Delicate pumps would never set off her frame as well as these monsters do.


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