Example sentences for: skeletons

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

  • Older children are sure to be fascinated by the Guanche skulls, skeletons, and mummies kept at both the Museo Canario in Las Palmas and the Museo Arqueológico at Santa Cruz on Tenerife.

  • Drawing on some of the finest of the 200 creatures unearthed in the area, the Tyrrell museum recreates jungle environments for superbly reconstructed skeletons and models, including Tyrrell’s Albertosaurus, the awesome Tyrannosaurus rex, measuring 15 m (45 ft) long and 6 m (19 ft) tall in its cotton socks, and the “tiny” but most lovable of all, a duck-billed Lambeosaurus, just 3 m (10 ft) tall, followed by her baby.

  • The association of lime and bones is not accidental: Limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) is nothing but the fossilized skeletons of tiny sea animals, and calcium is the principal ingredient of bone; when Shakespeare wrote, in The Tempest , that Of his bones are coral made, he stated a truer fact of nature than he may have known.

  • Some of the cutout designs are scenes related to specific holidays, such as skeletons for Día de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), dancers, floral patterns, the Mexican flag, and other patriotic scenes.

  • The newly dead are warm, soft, and somehow still human; by contrast, aged corpses and skeletons rising from the cold ground are the stuff of horror films, vampires and ghouls.


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