bone-crushing

Example Sentences

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Its long, shallow skull indicates it lacked the bone-crushing bite strength of T. rex.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

Based on fossilized poop and gnawed bones, researchers know adults used their bone-crushing teeth to eat large plant-eating dinos the size of an African elephant, such as Triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

Osmolyte concentrations increase at greater depths to ensure that fish cells don’t shrink too much at such bone-crushing pressures, but these compounds reach their maximum concentration at around 8,400 meters.

From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2023

Instead of bus-size behemoths, these fish were closer to Volkswagen Beetles, but still bugs that could deliver bone-crushing bites.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2023

She rushes forward and pulls me in a bone-crushing hug.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer