bones

Example Sentences

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Despite its hackneyed space western narrative, the film has good bones.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2026

Teenager Yenderlin Cabarza waited alone in an emergency room on Thursday, her bones broken by two powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela the day before.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Researchers combined this non-destructive luminescence method with established chemical analyses, allowing them to identify burned animal bones with a high level of confidence.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

Travel was in his bones, and his brief time as a professional musician in the 1930s coincided with the Great Migration, wherein black Americans descended from slaves moved north in search of better lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

Its mind seemed broken; scattered like old bones.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver