bones
Example Sentences
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Scientists must compare known fossils, determine how individual bones connected, and reconstruct missing portions using evidence from related animals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Before them stood 112 coffins containing bones and fragments of victims from the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families, two branches of the same Bedouin clan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Other damaged bones may have been bitten by different predators or scavengers living in the region at the time, including other carnivorous dinosaurs and crocodilians.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Most of the marked bones showed no signs that the surrounding tissue had healed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
I was glad of the hard physical work that drove some of the damp from my bones and for the occasional bite of raw potato when guards were not watching.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
