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How to use the word Skinny in a Sentence?

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I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound, my indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom( s) of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in — then you know something's wrong.

Patrick Swayze

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A skinny kid from the middle of Michigan was able to work at something and represent the country a couple of times and make a career out of hockey, my situation goes to show with some dedication, you can set your sights and you can accomplish something. If (young players) have looked to me as inspiring, that makes me feel good. If they could take a moment where I was on the ice and use it to build something for themselves, that makes me feel really good.

Kevin Miller

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Never let anyone tell you that you're too big, too small, too skinny, too weak, too slow, too dumb, or too much this or not enough that to accomplish your dream. Anything is possible when you work hard and believe in yourself.

Jamin Thompson

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one.

Amanda Gorman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My frustration is that we could've passed a very skinny deal that dealt with some of the most pressing issues.

Mark Meadows

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We gave the mice( what amounted to) a McDonald's diet. The normal mice got obese and the ones without ALK remained skinny.

Josef Penninger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We looked at the genetic maps of people with a BMI [ body mass index ] below 18 and compared them with those of people of normal weight and found the [ genetic variant ] that correlated with being super skinny.

Josef Penninger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you think about it, it's realistic that we could shut down ALK and reduce ALK function to see if we did stay skinny, aLK inhibitors are used in cancer treatments already. It's targetable. We could possibly inhibit ALK, and we actually will try to do this in the future.

Josef Penninger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That was the other extreme of it. I've been really big and was like, now I'm going to try to get as skinny as possible.

Ed Sheeran

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm unsure that calling what was announced by President Trump an agreement is justified, if they couldn't agree on a text, that must mean they're not done. Wishing an agreement does not one make. This isn't a skinny deal. It's an invisible one.

Scott Kennedy

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They looked miserable, malnourished, very skinny, very pale with a depressed look on their face.

Joseph Bompartito

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It seems to me to be particularly sexist, you have people comparing them in a way that doesn't really happen with men --' Meghan Markle's walking funny, or Meghan Markle heels are too high, or Meghan Markle legs are too skinny.'.

Emily Nash

Found on CNN
5 years ago

And I said, ‘ Oh, you mean,' Spider Monkey.' ’ That’s his nickname. He’s a skinny little white kid who makes all of these funny faces when he works out.

Chris Bosio

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Someone in our coaches ’ room asked me about Daniel Stumpf, and I said, ‘ Oh, you mean,' Spider Monkey.' ’ That’s his nickname. He’s a skinny little white kid who makes all of these funny faces when he works out.

Chris Bosio

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I can’t help the way I’m built. I am not trying to argue, I just feel like I have to be flat chested or real skinny in order to post.

Shalom Ifeanyi

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I always made comments to Louise when I did talk to her, about, gosh, they are so skinny, she would laugh it off and say David’s so tall and lanky, they are going to be like him.

Teresa Robinette

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

My body feels much better. I'm in better shape at 45 than I ever was when I was skinny in my 20s.

Whole Foods Employee

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Last week, our investigators began an investigation after seeing an online ad for teenage girls to come out to a skinny-dipping party at a pool in Scottsdale, one of our investigators noticed this ad and responded to the ad as a 14-year-old-girl, at which time we continued our investigation.

Mark Lamb

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If you want to be skinny do what skinny people do.

Brian Wansink

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I got lipo because even though I was skinny, I wanted — I’m not going to lie — a six pack, i had body contouring, but it all went wrong. My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing.

Tara Reid

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Failing to secure an indictment when a police officer shoots and kills an unarmed, skinny, naked teenager, who the officer outweighed by over 100 pounds, is a failure of will by the district attorney, and calls in to question the entire grand jury process in cases involving police misconduct.

Jeff Edwards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Skinny Vinnie hops over to the driver's seat, sticks Skinny Vinnie head out the window and waits for the order, skinny Vinnie is always disappointed when the coffee arrives, but Skinny Vinnie never gives up hope.

Melissa Anderson with K-9 Angels

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I started thinking to myself, if you want to be skinny, you’ve got to do what skinny people do, i noticed that most people riding bicycles were fit, so I went out and got a bicycle.

Dion Baynard

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Maybe one day they'll make a movie about a skinny white lady who invented a mop. ... Of course a black girl would have to invent the cure for cancer before they even give her a TV movie.

Whoopi Goldberg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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