Use bone in a sentence
Sentences ending with bone
- When found they were but skin and bone. [5]
- In their poverty they work these sorry things to the bone. [5]
- We picked out the items that were pointless and barren of information and stood them on a galley, and changed the dates and localities, and used them over and over again till the public interest in them was worn to the bone. [5]
- It has lost the flexibility, the plastic docility, which it had in youth and early manhood, when the gristle had but just become hardened into bone. [6]
- There is nothing that furnishes a perfect turkey-call except that bone. [5]
- I felt the steel strike the bone. [11]
- Thee is not skin and bone. [11]
- In a bad place of the hills I fell and broke an ankle bone. [11]
- The cards go out flip, flip, on the table, and with a little soft scrape in the hands, and I hear Bigot's hound much a bone. [11]
- Still more recently Gruber has written a pamphlet on the division of this bone. [1]
Short sentences using bone
- That's bone. [13]
Sentences containing bone two or more times
- Tarboe looked on with a keener eye and understanding, for was she not bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh? [11]
- Is it only those who are bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh? [11]
- Give, O great one, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, soul of his soul, that he will say, This is mine, body of my body, and he will hear the cry and will stay. [11]
- And give me bone of his bone, and one to nurse at my breast that is of him. [11]
More example sentences with the word bone in them
- At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
- The leg was worn away almost to skin and bone, but the knee itself was swollen with inflammation. [11]
- Even a corpse with its back bare of flesh to the bone has received the last lashes of a sentence, and was then buried in the mud of the shore with no religious ceremony. [11]
- It maps the whole surface of the body into an arbitrary number of regions, and studies each region successively from the surface to the bone, or beneath it. [3]
- I see I was up a stump again, so I played another chicken bone and got another think. [5]
- It was cutting very close to the bone to carve such a shred of humanity from the body politic to make a soldier of. [6]
- Others he called upon to lie in the hot spring at the foot of the hill for varying periods, before the laying on of hands, and these also, crippled, or rigid with troubles' of the bone, announced that they were healed. [11]
- How they sprang upon a bone, how they crunched the bread we gave them! [5]
- The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
- It enables him to see with the mind's eye through the opaque tissues down to the bone on which they lie, as if the skin were transparent as the cornea, and the organs it covers translucent as the gelatinous pulp of a medusa. [3]
- I should like to see a Yankee advertisement like this!--(the Little Gentleman laughed fiercely as he uttered the words,--) --Patent thumb-screws,--will crush the bone in three turns. [6]
- He was obliged to keep moving, for every time he sat down to rest he was soon penetrated to the bone with the cold. [5]
- It directly applied to Iowa, Minnesota, and to the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. [7]
- When you come to handle life and death as your daily business, your memory will of itself bid good-by to such inmates as the well-known foramina of the sphenoid bone and the familiar oxides of methyl-ethylamyl-phenyl-ammonium. [3]
- Who were they to fight the bone and sinew of the King's navy in a rotten ship of an age gone by? [9]
- This was not the veld, and he was no longer the veld-dweller with skin like the rhinoceros, all leather and bone and endurance. [11]
- It couldn't be the sledge, the dogs, the harpoons, the boat, the bone fish-hooks and needles, and such things--no, these were not wealth. [5]
- Vast wealth, to the person unaccustomed to it, is a bane; it eats into the flesh and bone of his morals. [5]
- Where it is,--said the little man;--it will never come off, till it falls off from the bone in the darkness and in the dust. [6]
- A little of the bone was left, and I gradually revived. [7]
- They slice around the bone a little, then break off the limb. [5]
- This was called the Big Bone Lick, and some travellers that went before us had made their tents with the thighs of these monsters of a past age. [9]
- And mind you the animles you carved on some of the Bone Ornaments is a blame sight too good for any primeaveal man that was ever fooled.--Varnum, Manager. [5]
- Hence Canestrini concludes that some ancient progenitor of man must have had this bone normally divided into two portions, which afterwards became fused together. [1]
- Jack, an unlucky Tanna recruit, who had been engaged to act as boatman, received an arrow through his forearm, the head of which--apiece of bone seven or eight inches long--was still in the limb, protruding from both sides, when the boats returned. [5]
- To give them solidity they were infiltrated with stone, in the form of salts of lime, an inorganic element, so that bone would be spelt out by the letters A, B, and Y. [3]
- At last he sighed and said: "When I supposed these stones were glass and this ivory bone, the thing hadn't any interest for me because it hadn't any value, and couldn't help me out of my trouble. [5]
- After twenty miles' ride he was dry as a bone, after thirty his skin was moist but not damp, and there was not a drop of sweat on the skin-leather of his fatigue cap. [11]
- It included the present States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa; also the Territory of Minnesota, and the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. [7]
- In the case of the turkey she is badly mixed: she gives it a bone to be used in getting it into trouble, and she also furnishes it with a trick for getting itself out of the trouble again. [5]
- A broad sort of humour was written upon every feature; in the full, quizzical eye, in the width of cheek- bone, in the broad mouth, and in the depth of the laugh, which, however, often ended in a sort of chuckle not entirely pleasant. [11]
- These horns consist of an excrescence of bone covered with a smooth sheath, forming part of the general integuments of the body, so that they are identical in structure with those of a bull, goat, or other sheath-horned ruminant. [1]
- The boat had now reached a point opposite the mudirieh, its stopping-place; and the raw- bone, reeking with sweat and blood, stood still and trembled, its knees shaking with the strain just taken off them, its head sunk nearly to the ground. [11]
- Mr. Douglas had not thrown his bone of Local Sovereignty to the sleeping dogs of war. [9]
- No doubt these means of change often co-operate: thus when certain muscles, and the crests of bone to which they are attached, become enlarged by habitual use, this shews that certain actions are habitually performed and must be serviceable. [1]
- Ivery bone in me body was achin', and shure me heart was achin' too, for the poor b'ys that were fightin' hard an' gettin' little for it. [11]
- And, therefore, I may not dwell upon this injustice to the men who won an empire and were flung a bone long afterwards. [9]
- Often had I marked on her little finger a certain ring in which a little white thing was set; yet was this no splinter of the bone of a Saint, but the first tooth her banished son had shed. [10]
- The square young man of bone and sinew in the first four, whose horse is built like a Crusader's, is George Catherwood. [9]
- What would you make of a cat's foolish little good-for-nothing collar-bone, if you did not know how the same bone means a good deal in other creatures,--in yourself, for instance, as you 'll find out if you break it? [6]
- I examined the limb, which had been severed just below the knee, and found that it had been charred by fire, while about two inches of the partially calcined bone protruded through the flesh. [5]
- I had to let on to get choked with a chicken bone, so as to get time to think how to get down again. [5]
- Then a little lead (also weighed) is rolled up with the flake of silver and the two are melted at a great heat in a small vessel called a cupel, made by compressing bone ashes into a cup-shape in a steel mold. [5]
- He saw to it that the meat was no longer a hateful, repulsive mass, two-thirds bone and gristle, and before it came into the cook's hands capable of being polished like mahogany. [11]
- As a bone is tossed to a dog, she gave it to him. [11]
- Another remarkable peculiarity is that when the great canine teeth are fully developed, immense protuberances of bone are formed on each cheek, which are deeply furrowed longitudinally, and the naked skin over them is brilliantly- coloured, as just-described. [1]
- He adduces another instance, in the case of the malar bone (40. [1]
- The gray ashes in Venters's hand had once been bone of a human being like himself. [13]
- Not a dog hungry for a bone, stopping at Guida's door, but was sure of one from a hiding-place in the hawthorn hedge of the garden. [11]
- Strange to relate, he obtained equally wonderful effects with Tractors of lead and of wood; with nails, pieces of bone, slate pencil, and tobacco-pipe. [3]
- He told me he laughed till the tears came and every bone in his body ached. [5]
- Here, then, we have the idea of property; but this idea is common to every dog with a bone, and to most or all birds with their nests. [1]
- The original persons had entered into the composition of the sharks; next, they and the sharks had become part of the flesh and blood and bone of the cannibals. [5]
- It has its Greek Convent, and the coffee there is good, but never a splinter of the true cross or bone of a hallowed saint to arrest the idle thoughts of worldlings and turn them into graver channels. [5]
- After church they got away from the mob of congratulators as soon as they could, and hurried homeward, chilled to the bone at they did not know what--vague, shadowy, indefinite fears. [5]
- Our ham-bone has given us a taste of food to-day, and we have got left a little meat and the remainder of the bone for tomorrow. [5]
- I swung a full circle--and to my horror I felt the axe plunging into soft flesh and crunching on a bone. [9]
- The knives and forks were iron, with bone handles, the spoons appeared to be iron or sheet iron or something of the sort. [5]
- To chip a flint into the rudest tool, or to form a barbed spear or hook from a bone, demands the use of a perfect hand; for, as a most capable judge, Mr. Schoolcraft (68. [1]
- They set and fixed up every broken bone except one. [11]
- Fidelity to principle, fidelity to truth, fidelity to her word, all these were in her bone and in her flesh--they were parts of her. [5]
- He had that fatal gift, imagination, which is more alive than flesh and bone, stronger than iron and steel. [11]
- We have aurists, dentists and oculists, surgeons for fractures of the bone, and others for internal diseases. [10]
- A time is coming when we shall need that blood and that bone in this Republic. [9]
- A common bone comb lay near the glass, and beside it a beautiful brush with an ivory back and handle. [11]
- If the others came up on our weather we should be chewed like a bone in a mastiff's jaws. [11]
- Two years went by, and she got better every way, but inside her leg those broken pieces of bone were rubbing against each other. [11]
- The illustrious Robert Boyle was making his collection of choice and safe remedies, including the sole of an old shoe, the thigh bone of a hanged man, and things far worse than these, as articles of his materia medica. [3]
- The structure of bone, now so beautifully made out,--even that of the teeth, in which old Leeuwenhoek, peeping with his octogenarian eyes through the minute lenses wrought with his own hands, had long ago seen the "pipes," as he called them,--was hardly known at all. [3]
- Just sound of bone and strong of heart, Staunch friend and noble foeman; In life to play the kingly part, True both to man and woman. [11]
- Why must every body praise Joseph's great-hearted generosity to his cruel brethren, without stint of fervent language, and fling only a reluctant bone of praise to Esau for his still sublimer generosity to the brother who had wronged him? [5]
- I had tried before to cut it out for you, for you complained yesterday that your hair was all in a tangle because you had not a comb, so I tried to carve you one out of bone. [10]
- It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that we could have walked the forty miles and set our feet on a bone at every step! [5]
- Here was to be a congressional convention that autumn, and a large part of Mr. Sutton's district lay in the North Country, which, as we have seen, was loyal to Jethro to the back bone. [9]
- My skin is bake and rough, but when I look at Gal Bargon I know that his heart is dry like a bone, and, as Parpon say that back time, he have a wheel in his head. [11]
- Cells, either floating, as in the blood, or fixed, like those in the cancellated structure of bone, already referred to. [3]
- I threw heads and won, but it was a barren victory, for although we spent all the next day searching, we never found a bone. [5]
- Ate the meat and rind of our ham-bone, and have the bone and the greasy cloth from around the ham left to eat to-morrow. [5]
- After an angry and dangerous controversy, the parties made friends by dividing the bone of contention. [7]
- The stomach is a small pear-shaped bone situated in the body. [5]
- If I want a concession from a local council, his hand is at work against me; if I see him in the street, I get a courtesy tossed, as you would toss a bone to a dog. [11]
- Youatt says ('Cattle,' 1834, p. 277), that the prominence of the frontal bone in cattle penetrates the cutis at birth, and that the horny matter is soon formed over it. [1]
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