close to the bone in a sentence

Examples

1. They are questions _ Love & Death _ closer to the bone than to skin pigment.
2. If his hair were cut any closer to the bone, you could summon him with a dog whistle.
3. Like the tales his mother and father told him, his own narratives are pared close to the bone.
4. Even closer to the bone, though, is the potential to undermine artistic freedom by withholding government financing.
5. Critics accuse Franke of cutting so close to the bone that employee morale has been driven into the ground.
6. "You're talking about something very close to the bone in a lot of families ."
7. It cuts much closer to the bone than the overproduced Phil Spector version on " Let It Be ."
8. It travels close to the bone, running between the scapula and the supraspinatus muscle, to which it supplies branches.
9. But the cartoonists often cut a lot closer to the bone of reality than, say, the columnists or editorial writers.
10. The ad may have been intended as tongue-in-cheek, but it has cut too close to the bone.