The broken bone may poke through the skin in some cases.

A broken arm, with the bone poking through the skin- bad news even under the best conditions.

A third place, just seven weeks after a bone was poking out of your shin?

He could see the splintered bone poking through his calf.

She had a compound fracture of the leg, and we could see the bone poking through the skin.

His left leg was broken just above the ankle, with a jagged edge of bone poking through the skin.

I could scarcely eat or sleep, and grew so thin that the bones nearly poked through my pelt.

He was achingly thin, his bones poking at his skin.

He was all alive, every part of him, at least every part you could see, and no bones poked out anywhere.

The leg had splintered in the fall; Cat could see the jagged edge of a bone poking through the skin.