Toward the end of the cycle, the birds are scrawnier, their fat stores depleted over the months of cold, so they tend to start huddling at warmer temperatures.
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He was still achieving in school and sports, though less brilliantly than before, and was somewhat small and scrawny.
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He grew up a scrawny kid with nagging allergy problems in a suburb of Stockholm.
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A few are recovering from eating disorders; their cheeks are hollow and their scrawny arms droop like slack rubber bands.
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At the same instant a short, scrawny, red-faced man sprang from a bunk in the corner.
Riddle of the Storm|Roy J. Snell
The widow, wild with joy at sight of the beetle, seized the cat in her scrawny arms and hugged the pet tightly to her bosom.
A Chinese Wonder Book|Norman Hinsdale Pitman
He was a wizened little chap, with scrawny neck and protruding Adam's apple.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth|Arthur Train
Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do.
Anne Of Green Gables|Lucy Maud Montgomery
Was this scrawny but good-natured kid afraid some of her people would catch her talking to a stranger by the roadside?