skeletal
Example Sentences
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A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Kevin Young, the project’s lead manufacturing engineer, remembered thinking as he watched the skeletal frame disappear into the paint machine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
The viral video shows him carrying a bundle of skeletal remains wrapped in a sack to the bank and placing it outside the building's entrance.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Examination of the skeletal remains also found unusually high death rates during the earlier burial period, especially among children and young people.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
His neck seemed so thin and fragile, his arms skeletal.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Vocabulary lists containing skeletal
STAAR Biology: Biological Processes and Systems
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Organisms and Environments 5: Human Systems
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Novel Study: Inside Out & Back Again, Unpack and Repack–1976: The Year of the Dragon
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