Then the Victorians kept skeletons in cupboards - but who cares about a mere skeleton now?

Though a mere skeleton of its former size and mass, it was still impressive as hell.

Most of them were split open or falling apart, some were mere skeletons.

Some have been there so long, that they are mere dry, grizzly skeletons.

By November, Gatien was a mere skeleton and the picture of death.

He must have died of cold and starvation; he was a mere skeleton.

The evening accounting crew was a mere skeleton compared to the day shift.

Some were mere skeletons with hardly any flesh at all.

Cancer had reduced the lovely, healthy woman to a mere skeleton, but her fighting spirit was still present.

The legions were in Italy or out toward the frontiers, and mere skeletons of what they had once been.