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skeleton-like - definition and meaning
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All three are excellent, but I lean toward Barclay Shaw's clever mix of circuit board, integrated circuit, pixelation (on the right of the face) and that skeleton-like bit of circuit board print that has a skeletal hand look to it as if covering up the area where a mouth should be.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' Edition 2010
I was shocked by his cadaverous face and skeleton-like body.
Chapter 20 2010
By the time you reach your destination, you wonder, as I did, if this skeleton-like driver whose hands shiver like the loose, crackling doors of his 1970s Lada is actually more pitiful than his taxi.
Fahad Faruqui: Outward Appearance vs. Inward Morality: The Hypocrisy Of Misdirected Faith Fahad Faruqui 2011
By the time you reach your destination, you wonder, as I did, if this skeleton-like driver whose hands shiver like the loose, crackling doors of his 1970s Lada is actually more pitiful than his taxi.
Fahad Faruqui: Outward Appearance vs. Inward Morality: The Hypocrisy Of Misdirected Faith Fahad Faruqui 2011
Browning and gazing at his skeleton-like and fever-wasted hands.
THE RED ONE 2010
Dita von Teese stole the show at Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture on Wednesday, performing a striptease on the catwalk, ultimately revealing a skeleton-like lingerie-contraption.
Dita Von Teese Strips At Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Show (PHOTOS) 2010
Fortuno, surviving on a daily handful of beans, considers his skeleton-like appearance to be a gift.
Ellen Bryson's "The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno," about P.T. Barnum Samantha Hunt 2010
When they reached him, he was back in his wheelchair, and up close, he looked frailer than ever, with a hollowed-out face, sunken eyes, and skeleton-like arms.
BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010
Dita von Teese stole the show at Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture on Wednesday, performing a striptease on the catwalk, ultimately revealing a skeleton-like lingerie-contraption.
Dita Von Teese Strips At Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Show (PHOTOS) 2010
Dita von Teese stole the show at Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture on Wednesday, performing a striptease on the catwalk, ultimately revealing a skeleton-like lingerie-contraption ....
Dita Von Teese Strips At Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Show (PHOTOS) 2010
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