BONES in a Sentence
Learn BONES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
218 example sentences for BONES, such as:
1. The broken bones of a child unite easily.
2. The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones.
3. Calcium is good to the growth of your bones.
4. The child was so thin that you could see her bones.
5. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
2. The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones.
3. Calcium is good to the growth of your bones.
4. The child was so thin that you could see her bones.
5. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of BONES
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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 The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
2 Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness.
3 In his eyes, there was a fagged, haunted look, and the sunburned skin was tight across the fine bones of his face--her same handsome Ashley, yet so very different.
4 At first, Melanie wanted to hold Scarlett's hand when the pain was bad but she clamped down on it so hard she nearly broke the bones.
5 His hip bones stood out like an old cow's, his ribs showed like a washboard and his back was a mass of sores.
6 The high cheek bones were more prominent, the hawk-bridged nose was sharper and her copper skin gleamed with a brighter hue.
7 The pretty roundness left her face, throwing her cheek bones into prominence, emphasizing her slanting green eyes and giving her the look of a prowling, hungry cat.
8 There was an air of studied and determined cheerfulness about the whole family which brought a colder chill to Scarlett's bones than the bitterness of Mimosa or the deathly brooding of Pine Bloom.
9 This was one stone wall too many and she suddenly felt so tired that her bones ached.
10 She patted her cheeks, felt frantically at her collar bones, feeling them stand out through her basque.
11 When she made feeble swimming motions to come back to consciousness, she was tired to her bones, weak, bewildered.
12 If they amounted to anything they'd have stayed where they were, instead of coming down here to pick our bones.
13 She was so thin that her small bones seemed ready to come through her white skin.
14 We could have been happy, for I loved you and I know you, Scarlett, down to your bones, in a way that Ashley could never know you.
15 Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
2 The victim made no bones about telling the public the truth.
3 The bones begin to grind against each other, leading to pain and deformity.
4 Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
5 You need to flesh out the bones of your idea a bit more.
6 The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.
7 Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips.
8 The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones.
9 The child was so thin that you could see her bones.
10 By looking at the bones of this animal, we can discover quite a lot about its musculature.
11 The broken bones of a child unite easily.
12 We can examine the bones of dinosaurs and make deductions about how they lived.
13 X-rays are used by doctors to examine the bones or organs inside our body.
14 I know I'm going to fail this exam-I can feel it in my bones.
15 Calcium is good to the growth of your bones.