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• The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles, linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.From the entry ossicle
• The skeleton key to this plan is the marketing, which will make the plan make sense when you see it.From the entry skeleton key
• We came upon the skeleton while we were hiking.From the entry come upon
• In the ossiferous caves we found many intact skeletons.From the entry ossiferous
• The Soviet troops who liberated Auschwitz were shocked by the condition of the walking skeletons who greeted them.From the entry walking skeleton
• Bart is reduced to a skeleton by piranhas from a hosepipe.2024 January 23, Helen Sullivan, “A piranha: it is boiling the water you’re swimming in and taking bites out of you”, in The Guardian…. From the entry piranha
• The skeleton is composed of triradiates arranged in a few confused layers in the walls of ascon-tubes.2023 November 24, Wikipedia contributors, “Clathrina mutsu”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry quadriradiate
• An example of engineering using the walking skeleton model is the Boston Dynamics walking dogs.2021 June 22, Adedeji B. Badiru, Lauralee Cromarty, Operational Excellence in the New Digital Era, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry walking skeleton
• “Fake stories that her skeleton is the one at Cape D’Aguilar have been circulating for long enough.2021 August 7, Kylie Knott, “The story behind Hong Kong’s whale skeleton display, and why a 3D-printed replica will soon straddle the…. From the entry Cape D'Aguilar
• The skeleton is an adult male who was buried with his hands bound together under his pelvis.2020 July 29, “Neolithic skeleton among finds unearthed at HS2 site”, in Rail, page 17. From the entry shed light on
• These have weakly mineralized skeletons which allow colonies to bend in the currents.2020, Paul D. Taylor, Bryozoan Paleobiology, page 109. From the entry flustriform
• And, because they spent their lives feeling entitled, they usually had skeletons in their closets.2018, Peter Parkin, Alison Darby, chapter 13, in The Ascendant, Brockville, Ont.: Sands Press, published October 2019, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry skeleton in one's closet
• First we get pygmy hippos blown up, then we come across a dwarf skeleton.2016, Paul Johnston, Skeleton Blues. From the entry microphilia
• But Aka is also found in skeletons of hexactinellids and lithistids in Jurassic sponge mounds.2012, Joachim Reitner, Helmut Keupp, editors, Fossil and Recent Sponges, page 5. From the entry hexactinellid
• The tool is called a fishbone diagram because it looks like the skeleton of a fish.2008, Barbara A. Cleary, Sally J. Duncan, Thinking Tools for Kids: An Activity Book for Classroom Learning, rev. edition, Milwaukee, Wis.…. From the entry fishbone diagram
• Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.2001, Daniel Handler, The Vile Village, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry murder
• Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.2001, Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, page 20. From the entry helijet
• Unlike modern, automated prisons, each cell here was locked and unlocked manually with a large skeleton key.1998, Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons, page 38. From the entry unlock
• I've got a couple of skeleton keys, I don't deny, but I hope we won't need them.1997, Claire Rayner, Fifth Member (George Barnabas; 4). From the entry go equipped
• I have seen the images of old skeletons under the cover of youths.1994, Rezaul Karim Talukdar, Nazrul Islam (Kazi), Nazrul, the gift of the century, page 103. From the entry youthness
• This was the most complete Neandertal skeleton found in western Europe up to that time.1992, Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, page…. From the entry Neandertaler
• The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy.1992 October, Don DeLillo, “Pafko at the Wall”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 285, number 1709, pages 35–67. From the entry winding-sheet
• It is clear that the parts of the goat skeletons that survive best are the unchewable ones.1981, Charles Kimberlin Brain, The hunters or the hunted?: An introduction to African cave taphonomy, page 21. From the entry unchewable
• On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 72. From the entry kopje
• In this group the skeleton is composed of monaxonal and tri- and tetractinal spicules of calcium carbonate.1967, James Herdman Wilmoth, Biology of Invertebrata, page 58. From the entry monaxonal
• The line was closed officially on August 9, and only a skeleton staff retained.1947 March and April, “The Position of the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 74. From the entry skeleton staff
• "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."1921, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11. From the entry well-covered
• Everybody feels as if they want a gleg at the skeleton in your vault.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry gleg
• Her limbs, too, consist of bones hinged together, emerging out of a dress—as if she is simply an attired skeleton.2023, Robert L. Pincus, On a Scale that Competes with the World. From the entry attired
• The Western and London Midland Regions ran no trains, with the rest of the network having the "barest of skeleton services".2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30. From the entry barest
• He’s also going to do a little digging on Matt Kline, find out if he’s got more skeletons in his closet.2023, Stacy Green, chapter 12, in Bone Lake (Nikki Hunt; 8), London: Bookouture, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry skeleton in one's closet
• The internet technology team—which is partly responsible for keeping the site functioning—became "a skeleton crew," two people said.2022 November 4, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, “Confusion and frustration reign as Elon Musk cuts half of Twitter's staff”, in The…. From the entry skeleton crew

Meaning of skeleton

1. noun The system that provides support to an organism, where in vertebrates it is internal and consists of bones and cartilage, and external in some other animals.
2. noun An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
3. noun A very thin person.

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How do you use skeleton in a sentence?

Skeleton is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Her whimsical Halloween decorations include dancing skeletons who sing an eerie song.”

What is a short sentence with skeleton?

“In the ossiferous caves we found many intact skeletons.”

What does skeleton mean?

Skeleton means the system that provides support to an organism, where in vertebrates it is internal and consists of bones and cartilage, and external in some other animals.