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Example sentences for: spines

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While Mr. Blair tried to stiffen spines among the other 17 Nato leaders arriving for the Alliance's 50 th birthday, Mr. Clinton made it clear that the world's sole superpower was underwriting the British-led escalation."
It's named for a virtual-reality game that the characters play with "biopods"--living disk drives that plug into vaginal holes at the base of people's spines.
Now, 12 years later, the aviation pioneer is picking cactus spines out of his face, the latest casualty of the world's most pointless competition.
Books are supposed to have spines.
I was at a picnic where people played a game--a game in which they attempted to flay each other using hand-held metal hooks, stripping skin away from their ribs and spines.