bone
Definition:
Use 'bone' in a sentence: 1. Old people's bones are more prone to fracture. 2. Bone china is strong and durable. 3. The dog was gnawing a bone . 4. Here is the bone of the opossum. 5. As your baby grows bigger, his bones become less pliable. 6. A bone left by a dog would have tasted good to him! 7. It helps with bone growth. 8. She was honest and hard-working, and didn't have an unkind bone in her body. 9. I've got a feeling in my bones that things are not quite right. 10. She made no bones about telling him exactly what she thought of him. 11. A child was wrongly diagnosed as having a bone tumor. 12. He measured the speed at which ultrasonic waves travel along the bone . 13. The jolt seemed to jar every bone in her body. 14. The dog sniffed at the bone , then went away. 15. The workforce has been pared to the bone . 16. Let's go home, I'm chilled to the bone . 17. The strength of the book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument. 18. I'm frozen to the bone out here. 19. I had undergone an operation in which part of a bone in one leg was used to replace the shattered bone in the other. 20. There are 2,000 children worldwide who need a bone marrow transplant. 21. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. 22. The dogs were fighting over a bone . 23. Swimming is helpful for bones that are porous and weak. 24. Some of them make no bones about their political views. 25. The bone hasn't knitted together properly. 26. Bone growth in reptiles is periodic in nature, producing a series of concentric rings in the bone , not unlike the growth rings of a tree. 27. She suffered severe bruising, but no bones were broken. 28. The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone . 29. The thorn of bone may dislodge from his throat without surgery. 30. Doctors performed surgery and removed the bone . 31. The dog was chewing on a bone . 32. He broke his bone when climbing as a child. 33. The main bone of contention is the temperature level of the air-conditioners. 34. The bone failed to knit correctly. 35. Several people were treated for broken bones . 36. His threats chilled her to the bone . 37. The protrusion turned out to be a bone . 38. He has cracked a bone in his arm. 39. Our bone marrow contains fat in the form of small globules. 40. His collar bone only hurt when he lifted his arm. 41. This fish has a lot of bones in it. 42. Her mouth felt as dry as a bone . 43. The dog had buried its bone in the garden. 44. Now the river bed is bone dry. 45. It has survived by cutting its costs to the bone . 46. The funny bone probably got its name from the bone that is above your elbow. 47. A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone . 48. You can hear the saw as it cuts through the bones . 49. He survived the accident with no broken bones . 50. The old man broke a tooth on a bone . 51. In many bone transplants, bone can be taken from other parts of the patient's body. 52. The body is made up primarily of bone , muscle, and fat.
