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Examples

  • Her skin is tea-colored, parchmentlike, mostly hairless now.

    The Nondescript 2008

  • Her skin is tea-colored, parchmentlike, mostly hairless now.

    The Nondescript 2008

  • The result may be white, parchmentlike skin patches that itch or hurt.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • The result may be white, parchmentlike skin patches that itch or hurt.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • The result may be white, parchmentlike skin patches that itch or hurt.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • The result may be white, parchmentlike skin patches that itch or hurt.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • His pale eyes stood out in a bony, almost skeletal head over which the skin was stretched taut and parchmentlike.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • His pale eyes stood out in a bony, almost skeletal head over which the skin was stretched taut and parchmentlike.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • The skeleton could be seen clearly through the parchmentlike skin: the round disks of the neck and spine, the large bones of the massive rib cage, the thick and heavy bones of the gigantic legs, the more delicate bones of the wings and tail and feet.

    Dragons Of A Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002

  • The skeleton could be seen clearly through the parchmentlike skin: the round disks of the neck and spine, the large bones of the massive rib cage, the thick and heavy bones of the gigantic legs, the more delicate bones of the wings and tail and feet.

    Dragons of a Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002

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