skeleton

Definition:
1. The structure of bones that supports the body of a person or an animal.
2. Something reduced to its minimal form.
3. The main structure that supports a building.

Use 'skeleton' in a sentence:

1. Let's go ahead and draw our Lewis structure based on the rest of the rules now that we have a skeleton.
2. Till thy skin shrivels up and thou art a skeleton!
3. Jungers pulls his office chair over to an assembled human skeleton hanging like a suit from a hanger.
4. If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town.
5. To understand the shoulder, look at a human skeleton.
6. The chances of escaping complete destruction are vastly improved if the organism happens to have a mineralized skeleton and dies in a place where it can be quickly buried by sediment.
7. This paper mainly devotes to study limit theory of Markov skeleton processes through renewal method.
8. The details of her skeleton proclaim her human affinity.
9. I don't have skeleton in my closet!
10. These could reflect the declining weight of the human skeleton that seems to have accompanied the switch to settled life, which started some 15,000 years ago.
11. The early human skeleton reconstruction "Lucy" dating back 3.2 million years debuted yesterday.
12. A skeleton staff of 20 is being kept on.
13. All steroids contain a skeleton of 17 carbon atoms organized into four rings.
14. Examples were used to flesh out the skeleton of the argument.
15. How come he's become such a walking skeleton in a few days'time?
16. Death is often shown in paintings as a human skeleton.
17. There will only be a skeleton staff on duty over the holiday.
18. Her body was so thin that one could almost see her skeleton.
19. We will produce the skeleton of that cat.
20. I know not what the younger dreams—some vague Utopia—and she seems, when withered old and skeleton-gaunt, an image of such politics.
21. A long illness made a skeleton out of him.
22. The machine skeleton uses the steel plate overall welding structure, firm is durable.
23. Only skeletons of buildings remained.
24. The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.
25. This is an attempt to put flesh on what has been a very bare skeleton plan up to now.
26. Only the concrete skeleton of the factory remained.
27. This is exactly the skeleton needed to build up site management functionality on.
28. The skeleton has been dated at about 2000 BC.
29. We managed to operate a skeleton bus service during the strike.
30. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is Carlton.
31. He is a walking skeleton.
32. We only have a skeleton bus service on public holidays.
33. We can believe the molecular data, the DNA, or we can believe the skeleton trail, but unfortunately, not both.
34. Of course in early architecture—such as igloos and adobe structures—there was no such equipment, and the skeleton and skin were often one.
35. They're giving a plastic model skeleton away with a children's book on the body.
36. The outer one third has a cartilaginous skeleton.
37. Mr Worthing is this election's Mr Nice Guy, without any skeletons in his cupboard.
38. The team made a skeleton, covered the bones with a clay body, and added plumage made of pheasant feathers trimmed to match impressions preserved in fossils.
39. Very recently in Egypt, they found a skeleton of Basilosaurus.
40. It has long been known that the human skeleton constantly constructs and destroys cells, according to the stresses that its bones experience.
41. He is reduced to a skeleton because of illness.
42. The skeleton showed no sign of disease or injury.
43. The most impressive find is the nearly complete skeleton of a huge Columbian mammoth.
44. To concrete shear walls, they add steel braces to a skyscraper's skeleton or beefier rebar.
45. The human skeleton consists of 206 bones.
46. This skeleton schedule is your base.
47. Every family has a skeleton in the cupBoard.
48. Just what evolutionary niche they filled is up for debate, largely because no one has seen a spinosaurus skeleton for the last 50 years.
49. In this case, we have a few options for what kind of application skeleton to create.
50. It also develops a model of management information system and the software technology skeleton.
51. The result is a stable skeleton that results in a smooth and vibration less driving experience.
52. In many marine creatures, however, the skeleton is composed of a mineral variety of calcium carbonate called aragonite.
53. Only a skeleton staff remains to show anyone interested around the site.