How to Use skin and bones in a Sentence

skin and bones

idiom
  • Remove and discard the skin and bones from the chicken.
    Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • As soon as the chicken is cool enough to handle, pull off and shred the meat; discard the skin and bones.
    Janelle Davis, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Cool for 5 minutes; discard the skin and bones, and shred the meat into large pieces.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Otis was a little late to show up and displayed even more skin and bones than the other bears.
    Erin Berger, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Otis was a little late to show up and displayed even more skin and bones than the other bears.
    Erin Berger, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The turkey’s skin and bones were essential to give the stock flavor as well as body.
    Andy Baraghani, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The mineral is also said to be good for skin and bones and soothes sore muscles.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2021
  • Poor families might ask the fishmonger for just the fish head, skin and bones.
    Rachel Ringler, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Transfer chicken to a bowl and when cool enough to handle, shred the meat, discarding the skin and bones.
    Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Shred the meat, discarding the skin and bones, and reserve to serve with soup or use for another recipe.
    Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Parts of the corpse were mummified, with the moisture naturally drained from the skin and bones.
    Washington Post, 5 May 2021
  • When cool enough to handle, shred meat, discarding skin and bones.
    Kate Merker, Woman's Day, 1 Mar. 2021
  • When the chicken is cool enough to handle, shred the meat into bite-size pieces, discarding skin and bones.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Today, at 42 going on 43, Andy Warhol is skin and bones, all knobby knees through the soiled and rumpled jeans, and long bony arms.
    Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Place chicken breasts on a work surface and remove, then discard skin and bones.
    Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
  • Remove and discard skin and bone from chicken, and cut meat into bite-size pieces.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
  • But in a small number of cases, infection can spread to the nervous system, skin and bones.
    David Axe, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2023
  • If the chicken is done before the rest of the ingredients, remove it, discarding the skin and bones, and put it aside.
    CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But its presence in skin and bones is where the protein is most concentrated.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Heavy skin and bones are counterweights to gas; a muscular diaphragm adjusts for roll and pitch.
    National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • But there are also shears that are designed for more specialized and specific tasks, such as cutting through the skin and bones of poultry.
    Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2020
  • If using rotisserie chicken, remove the skin and bones.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Buy them with the skin and bones intact, which gives you meat that won't dry out; a relatively low temperature ensures tender, juicy flesh.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
  • Lodge is accused of stealing organs and other body parts — including heads, brains, skin and bones — from cadavers that were donated to the school's morgue for medical research and education ahead of scheduled cremations, according to the indictment.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023

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