Wondering how to use Skinny in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as scraggy or close.
Skinny meaning
- Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories.
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
Synonyms of Skinny
Using Skinny
- The main meaning on this page is: Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense). | Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories. | Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
- Useful related words include: scraggy, close, cheeseparing, tight.
- In the example corpus, skinny often appears in combinations such as: skinny jeans, and skinny, the skinny.
Context around Skinny
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Skinny
- In this selection, "skinny" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particularly, basic, means, jeans, bundle and young stand out and add context to how "skinny" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tall skinny tree in and appearance alone skinny pins in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "skinny" sits close to words such as agility, anand and ariel, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with skinny
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Girls' Skinny Leg Jersey School Trousers, from £5. (8 words)
Durant has long been considered relatively skinny for his size in the NBA. (13 words)
For example, an oversized jumper could be paired with skinny jeans or fitted trousers. (14 words)
By the time we made it to pants, I was totally depressed, a feeling that only worsened when my wife binned every pair of Nudie jeans that defined my 20s, comparing me to that meme of a dog stuffed into a pair of skinny-leg jeans. (46 words)
I have a tall, skinny tree in my living room, by a window, and people can see it driving down our road, from the other side of our cottage, on our deck or by the water as they zoom by in their boats. (43 words)
Some of the skinny bundle services, like Alphabet's YouTube TV, include Spanish-language networks in basic packages; others offer Spanish-language add-ons for as little as $4 or $5 a month on top of the basic skinny bundle price. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Services like this are sometimes called skinny-bundle streaming services, but AT&T TV Now's cheapest package isn't particularly skinny -- $55 a month for more than 45 live channels (not including HBO).
Some of the skinny bundle services, like Alphabet's YouTube TV, include Spanish-language networks in basic packages; others offer Spanish-language add-ons for as little as $4 or $5 a month on top of the basic skinny bundle price.
He had been expecting a skinny young kid who is transformed into a skinny young kid with spider powers.
Skinny jeans became a staple clothing for young women and men by 2009 with the Jerkin' movement playing a large part in the popularization of skinny jeans.
Among the customary crowd of people at the foot of Flaco's perch in the park last week, several remarked that he had grown 'much bigger' - noting the irony of his name which means 'skinny' in Spanish.
Because he’s skinny, “the only way they could make him strong enough was to print the puppet in metal.
But that means very skinny, very short-lived dunes of 6 cubic yards per foot, compared to the 90 cubic yards per foot that the Army Corps will build.
By the time we made it to pants, I was totally depressed, a feeling that only worsened when my wife binned every pair of Nudie jeans that defined my 20s, comparing me to that meme of a dog stuffed into a pair of skinny-leg jeans.
Could also be called “skinny” instead of “wiry,” which is where the question marks arise.
Durant has long been considered relatively skinny for his size in the NBA.
For example, an oversized jumper could be paired with skinny jeans or fitted trousers.
For example, I’m not skinny, short, or smooth enough to be a twink.
Girls' Skinny Leg Jersey School Trousers, from £5.
He had visited the concert stage but decided that the story was elsewhere — the hundreds of thousands of audience members, some tripping, others building tents, skinny-dipping in a pond and sharing crates of bananas and loaves of bread.
His ability to get skinny here late in the rep and rip off another five yards is impressive.
His eyes are shut, as if whatever he is cannot be seen or known through appearance alone, skinny pins in brown trousers, feet dangling in old men’s brogues.
I finally discovered that skinny as I was I could do just as much as the big guys.
If you haven’t already left behind your skinny jeans, it is time to do so.
I have a tall, skinny tree in my living room, by a window, and people can see it driving down our road, from the other side of our cottage, on our deck or by the water as they zoom by in their boats.
In the first photo taken in May, Kurt appeared more skinny as he posed for a mirror selfie.
Common combinations with skinny
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- skinny jeans 26×
- and skinny 19×
- the skinny 18×
- of skinny 14×
- with skinny 11×
- too skinny 7×
- skinny pete 6×
- is skinny 5×
- as skinny 5×
- skinny girl 4×