I ended the day right where those kernels came from, in a field filled with cornstalks that looked as if they had been starved dry, the gray skeletons barely holding up the ears.

It was morning; the trees around his temporary base were gray skeletons against the paler gray of the dawn sky.

Dr. Penland said these gray skeletons signaled that this wetland was once a freshwater marsh dry enough for a tree to grow.

And wherever they go, they eventually suck the life out of hemlocks and leave behind bare, gray skeletons.

It lay in a dusty basin surrounded by rimrock and the gray skeletons of dead piñons.

Most of the trees were gray skeletons clawing at the sky.

From this arose die twisted, gaunt gray skeletons of dead oaks.

The fleeting, fragile beauty these hills had held only a few short weeks ago was gone now; the trees were bare, gray skeletons in the thin sunlight; the grasses sere and brown.

Today, in fields marked by gray skeletons of jungle trees, he grows corn and manioc.

Gordon Reed seemed even more like a grey skeleton beside her glowing presence.