bones
Example Sentences
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The bones appear to have belonged to a fully grown animal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Metallica makes no bones about the group’s ambitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Several theories suggest Earhart survived a crash on the island before being overcome by giant meat-eating crabs, external that carried away her bones.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
At an Alaskan research station she inhales the scent of oxidizing permafrost: “Pleistocene-aged grass, mammoth bones, and thousands and thousands of years of microbial cells.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I ask, but as I ask, it dawns on me, what I didn’t know, and my legs go all quivery, like my bones are made of rubber.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
