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Example sentences for "bone"

Lexicographically close words:
bondslave; bondsman; bondsmen; bondwoman; bondwomen; boned; bonehead; boneless; bones; boneset
  1. She was bone of his bone and he had made no effort even for his own flesh.

  2. The stranger that is within their gates is all one with him who is bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh.

  3. All the dainties she brought down from the Big House were for the blind child, and she beat and cuffed her other children whenever she found them teasing him or trying to get his chicken-bone away from him.

  4. After he had tried over all the sounds, he began to finger out passages from things Miss Nellie had been practising, passages that were already his, that lay under the bone of his pinched, conical little skull, definite as animal desires.

  5. Of all these articles, the human thigh-bone is by much the most curious; it is very often that of a Lama, and is valuable in proportion to its length.

  6. If it opposed you relentlessly--and it keeps its teeth on California like a dog on a bone bigger than himself--I should have to yield; I have too much at stake myself.

  7. On our way back the conversation died for want of bone and muscle, and, as it happened, we were both silent as we approached a small adobe hut.

  8. Sirs Lamas," said the little layman, "shall I bone the sheep?

  9. As to that, it need not so much matter; but the chances are that this Tcheou-ta-dze will break every bone in our bodies into the bargain.

  10. Tie a beef bone with scraps of meat adhering to it to a tree.

  11. The following standard fertilizers may be used: stable manure, nitrate of soda, muriate of potash, and bone meal.

  12. How does a dog hold a bone while he is picking it, and how does he get the meat off the bone?

  13. By hanging up a beef bone in the orchard, various birds, including woodpeckers, will be induced to visit and perhaps to make their homes in the orchard.

  14. The next bone pierces that Bloomsbury-like district of highly respectable squares, and so comes out upon the tail of a long regiment of trees making a fine effort to live up to their reputation of being a boulevard.

  15. Wavertree lies at the end of the Smithdown Road bone of the fan.

  16. We lifted the roaring mass of bone and muscle on to the stretcher, tucked him in, so to speak, and then turned our attention to Little Willie.

  17. He was ripped open right along the jaw, and the bone itself was badly broken.

  18. I saw the wound on his jaw, and, touching it, discovered the bone was broken.

  19. The unassimilated material scattered through its pages reminds us of nothing so much as feather pellets and fragments of bone that have passed unchanged through the gastric tract of a hawk.

  20. You learn this one and pat yourself on the breast-bone and say, 'Behold me, I'm on to women.

  21. Then Marian tells how, when the huntsmen cut up the stag, they threw the bone called the raven's bone to one that sat and croaked for it.

  22. The pole of the spears is about six feet in length, and pointed with a barbed bone of ten inches.

  23. Where Jewish customs prevailed--and it is admitted that they did prevail in Jerusalem and Judea at this time, and had for hundreds of years--a human skull or bone was not allowed to be exposed for even a moment.

  24. A chip of the true cross, some iron filings from the chain of St. Peter, a tooth or bone of a martyr, were held in adoration; the world was full of the stupendous miracles which these relics had performed.

  25. Heavy fines have also been imposed lately upon a rope maker who put linen in a hemp cord, and a cutler who put silver ornaments in a bone knife handle.

  26. In the springtime a bone from the head of a mare should be set out in the garden to drive off the caterpillars.

  27. The name of Bunhill Fields, the great Nonconformist burying-ground, is short for Bone Hill.

  28. Had he consented to such an arrangement, Austria might have aggrandized herself on the Inn, Prussia in Franconia, and France in Italy; and the present bone of contest would have been chiefly removed.

  29. Luckily he is not much the worse, for he has only a fractured collar-bone and a broken arm.

  30. As the vessel cuts through the water she raises a frill of foam on either side--what the sailors call "a bone in her mouth.

  31. The salmon is cooked when already in the tin, and the heating is so severe that all the bone becomes soft too.

  32. I had ridden up to the Makololo, expecting to find every bone in his body broken.

  33. We hurried out of our ambush to render assistance to Hans; but he was dead, every bone in his body being broken; even his features could not be recognised.

  34. On examining his arm, though it was fearfully crushed, wonderful as it may seem, no bone was actually broken.

  35. Mystery for mighty men Who, like Doctor Dry-bone Bring them into form again From a scale or thigh-bone.

  36. There was not a vestige of bone nor any outline that could identify the joint, and the not unsavoury taste was something like tender veal.

  37. Among the many skeletons unearthed at that time was a thigh bone 2 ft.

  38. Canon Bone says-- "The stone was removed to the Vicarage, but it had worn so thin that it broke up, and unfortunately the fragments were lost.

  39. If that fool of a sergeant told us the truth this morning," said Lord Torrington, "and there's some man with her I want to break every bone in his body as soon as I can.

  40. There's nothing worse for a broken bone than a sudden jar.

  41. The barred light shone on a musty skeleton, to which still clung a few mouldy shreds left by the rats; and only the celebrated bone handle identified it as what had once been the maddened finder's idolized Alpaca Umbrella.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bill; biscuit; bone; bony; brick; buck; cement; con; concrete; contemplate; cracker; diamond; dig; dollar; drill; dust; examine; fish; flint; granite; grind; iron; ligament; marble; mummy; nail; oak; oneness; ossified; parchment; peruse; practice; read; review; rock; skin; steel; stick; stone; study; tendon; vet