backbone

Example Sentences

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All of them came through the academy at the same time and have now become the backbone of the team.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

There’s doubt massive tankers, once the backbone of global crude flows, will be returning in quite the same numbers to the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

“Public hospitals are the backbone of our healthcare system,” Ahrens said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

What it will do is add a savory backbone that makes the entire skillet taste like you spent much longer cooking than you actually did.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

They call it “the backbone of night,” as if the sky were some great beast inside which we live.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan