SKELETON in a Sentence
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52 example sentences for SKELETON, such as:
1. The building has a steel skeleton.
2. There is a skeleton in every house.
3. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
4. The police unearthed a skeleton in his garden.
5. We found an old sheep skeleton up on the cliffs.
2. There is a skeleton in every house.
3. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
4. The police unearthed a skeleton in his garden.
5. We found an old sheep skeleton up on the cliffs.
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Meanings and Examples of SKELETON
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skeleton
n. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
n. a scandal that is kept secret
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1 The skeleton iron windmill on the farm a few blocks away, at the north end of Main Street, was like the ribs of a dead cow.
2 I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
3 As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.
4 But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form.
5 For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan, that his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape.
6 When the Romans took Joppa, the same skeleton was carried to Italy in triumph.
7 Cutting me a green measuring-rod, I once more dived within the skeleton.
8 Because there are skeleton authorities you can refer to, to test my accuracy.
9 In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to exhibit.
10 How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
11 There are forty and odd vertebrae in all, which in the skeleton are not locked together.
12 A significant illustration of the fact, again and again repeated in this book, that the skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested body.
13 Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
14 Whereas, we have already seen, that the tape-measure gives seventy-two feet for the skeleton of a large sized modern whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
15 We drove up to this skeleton to tie our horses, and then I saw a door and window sunk deep in the drawbank.
Example Sentence:
1 Only a skeleton staff remains to show anyone interested around the site.
2 We found an old sheep skeleton up on the cliffs.
3 Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
4 There is a skeleton in every house.
5 The police unearthed a skeleton in his garden.
6 We'll be down to a skeleton staff over Christmas.
7 And finally, the utility of the skeleton would be mostly likely to aid in definitive identification.
8 The building has a steel skeleton.
9 The archaeologist claimed that the skeleton was primeval origin, though in fact it was the remains of a modern day monkey.