"skeleton" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I lifted my flashlight and vaguely, through the driving ice, I could just make out the ghostly hooped-steel skeleton, ice-coated on the windward side, fire-charred on the leeward side, of what had once been a Nissen-shaped hut.
- Gregory took the specters in stride, even when our car sailed by some mirrors and the image showed a ghostly green skeleton with a top hat sitting between the two of us.
- The ghostly skeleton was there?
- The ghostly, overgrown, skeleton of the wheel survives in the adjacent part, although signs of decay are evident everywhere.
- Röntgen thus saw the first radiographic image, his own flickering ghostly skeleton on the barium platinocyanide screen.
- She looked like a ghostly skeleton.
- From creaking stage coaches to the ghostly skeletons of cacti, there's a bit of everything.
- But it was so decayed, sagging and rusted that it looked like a ghostly skeleton, a lost cause.
- The sky was bright with stars, and a moon the color of bananas floated in the sky like a ship one could imagine setting sail against the shadows cast by the ghostly skeletons of these enormous beasts.
- Looking up at the ghostly skeleton of the bridge, which glistened with condensation and vanished in the fog, Nora said, "You seem to think the world will be paradise in a decade or two."
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