bone
Example Sentences
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On Jan. 30, Vonn suffered a complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, with meniscus and bone damage, when she crashed during a downhill race in Crans Montana, Switzerland.
From Los Angeles Times
"Bones are overly smooth, spines unnaturally straight, lungs overly symmetrical, blood vessel patterns excessively uniform, and fractures appear unusually clean and consistent, often limited to one side of the bone."
From Science Daily
One bone of contention: proposed studio units that he and some other local business owners say their workers neither want nor need.
"We became quite silent when we found the first bone," he said, adding that there were several pointers indicating that the skeleton belonged to the Sun King's right-hand man.
From BBC
Reading Ebert’s streamlined analysis, you understand a particular terror, that moment when art chills you to your bones.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
