BONE in a Sentence
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218 example sentences for BONE, such as:
1. The dog pawed at the bone.
2. A good dog deserves a good bone.
3. It flashed like a bleached bone.
4. She was tired, tired to the bone.
5. He has cracked a bone in his arm.
2. A good dog deserves a good bone.
3. It flashed like a bleached bone.
4. She was tired, tired to the bone.
5. He has cracked a bone in his arm.
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Meanings and Examples of BONE
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bone
v. study intensively, as before an exam
a. consisting of or made up of bone
Classic Sentence: (166 in 12 pages)
1 This was difficult, for Scarlett had not a subtle bone in her body; and Gerald was so much like her he never failed to penetrate her weak subterfuges, even as she penetrated his.
2 "And breaks a collar bone like a man," said Gerald.
3 She was tired, tired to the bone.
4 If it hasn't splintered his collar bone it's not so serious.
5 It was not the blood but the grating of the surgical saw on the living bone that broke her, and she knew that she had been fighting off nausea, that she was beaten.
6 Be that how it may, there stands the vast arched bone of the whale's jaw, so wide, a coach might almost drive beneath it.
7 Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone fish hooks on the shelf over the fire-place, and a tall harpoon standing at the head of the bed.
8 It was of a conical shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the right-whale.
9 It had previously come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale's jaw.
10 His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.
11 It flashed like a bleached bone.
12 Suddenly he came to a halt by the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft.
13 It was in Queen Anne's time that the bone was in its glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
14 Nor in the Sperm Whale are there any of those blinds of bone; no huge lower lip; and scarcely anything of a tongue.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
15 Now this was written at a time when the black limber bone of the Greenland or Right whale was largely used in ladies' bodices.
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
2 A good dog deserves a good bone.
3 Two cats and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone, never agree in one.
4 Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.
5 He has cracked a bone in his arm.
6 Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
7 While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
8 What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
9 The wind really chills me to the bone.
10 The jolt seemed to jar every bone in her body.
11 The bus service has been cut to the bone.
12 The plastic surgeon diagnosed my illness as a rare bone disease.
13 The dog pawed at the bone.
14 The dog was worrying away at its bone.
15 Give the dog the bone don't tantalize him.