skull

Example Sentences

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To test his theory, the team designed a series of experiments using an advanced head model fitted with pressure sensors before firing footballs at the model skull with "a big ball cannon".

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

It’s like Cirque du Soleil performed by unrehearsed 19-year-olds with skull tattoos, or some mad operation dreamed up by Col.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

The painting depicts Mary Magdalene with long, flowing hair, draped in a regal red garment and clutching a skull — a contemporary interpretation of one of Christianity’s most enduring figures.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

Mr. Sarnoski brings considerably less energy to the soul renovation than to the skull crushing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

By the middle of the nineteenth century, a popular parlor game is "reading" one's character by feeling the skull for bumps and dips and then matching them to a head chart such as this one.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman