Example sentences for: boned

How can you use “boned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The young court ladies in Elizabeth appear in their natural hair and skin, wearing modern-looking Renaissancey garments that run to becomingly mobile and flowing silk dresses with smoothly boned bodices.

  • The screenwriters, Adam Scheinman and Robert Kuhn, have boned up on their Feydeau and Fawlty Towers --not to mention the slew of mobster movies to which they cheerfully make reference (and from which the filmmakers have hired most of the supporting cast).

  • Ambrose Bierce defined an adage as “boned wisdom for weak teeth”; the challenge to the epigrammatist is to put some teeth into it.

  • Most of the candidates boned up on the subject with the aid of Joy E. Parkinson's Manual of English for the Overseas Doctor , a book that enjoyed a brisk sale at the beginning of the 1980s.


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