Explore Scrawny through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like scraggy or stunted. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Scrawny in a sentence
Scrawny meaning
Thin, malnourished, and weak.
Using Scrawny
- The main meaning on this page is: Thin, malnourished, and weak.
- Useful related words include: scraggy, stunted, scrubby, lean.
Context around Scrawny
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scrawny
- In this selection, "scrawny" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, last, looked, young, chicken and white stand out and add context to how "scrawny" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 37 the scrawny dog makes and a scrawny little black. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scrawny" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scrawny
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
No wonder the boys looked scrawny, sick and miserable. (9 words)
Memory Museum are scrawny, white kids; I think I saw them once. (12 words)
A scrawny-looking donkey noses among the rocks, seeking out the last scraps of nutrition. (15 words)
I had taken two or three pictures before I was interrupted by a shirtless youth no older than 20. With support from four other scrawny young males and a pretty but unkempt female teenager, he insisted I put away my camera. (41 words)
While the Saluki’s top speed of 43 miles per hour is a bit quicker than the big cat’s 37, the scrawny dog makes a few elusive moves, yet eventually runs out of gas. (35 words)
Rowling imagined him as a "scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard", and says she transferred part of her pain about losing her mother to him. (32 words)
Example sentences (16)
I had taken two or three pictures before I was interrupted by a shirtless youth no older than 20. With support from four other scrawny young males and a pretty but unkempt female teenager, he insisted I put away my camera.
Instead of the specially reared Norfolk turkey his relations were tucking into at Sandringham the prince had a scrawny chicken, freshly slaughtered by Gurkha soldiers with their fearsome daggers.
Memory Museum are scrawny, white kids; I think I saw them once.
Down below, on the riverbank, black-eyed children were playing on the strand among garbage battled over by scrawny dogs and goats.
He was a scrawny pit bull mix with a big head that looked goofy on his petite frame.
In the book, Richards is a scrawny and desperate father who agrees to enter contest as the last resort to get medicine for his sick daughter.
While the Saluki’s top speed of 43 miles per hour is a bit quicker than the big cat’s 37, the scrawny dog makes a few elusive moves, yet eventually runs out of gas.
A scrawny-looking donkey noses among the rocks, seeking out the last scraps of nutrition.
But the crucial instrumentalist was Alex Castillo, a scrawny kid in a black jacket, white T-shirt and fuzzball haircut whose bass lines were both rhythmically muscular and melodically fearless.
He goes into the freezer and discovers that there’s one last scrawny turkey left.
He has been told that families have a better chance at the border, so he is considering taking his scrawny nine-year-old son, Wilson, with him.
It’s been five years, and I’ve tried to correct their scrawny growth by adding plenty of mulch and fertilizing regularly, but the growth continues to be weak.
No wonder the boys looked scrawny, sick and miserable.
Suggesting, or implying that food products with the Non-GMO Project Verified label are safer and more nutritious is simply misleading and rests on scrawny scientific evidence.
A scrawny, little, black-haired, bespectacled boy became more and more of a wizard to me..
Rowling imagined him as a "scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard", and says she transferred part of her pain about losing her mother to him.