Words similar to spines

Example sentences for: spines

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

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."
I then had to read several book spines, using a well-adapted, pseudo-binary-search algorithm I have developed in my brain over the years, looking for the author's name.
According to Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] , the Artemisia -group is monophyletic and defined by heterogamous-disciform capitula (disk florets usually bisexual and fertile, ray florets pistillate) or homogamous-discoid capitula (disk florets usually bisexual and fertile, ray florets absent), pollen with short or no spines (associated with anemophily), and thick-walled cypselas devoid of ribs (sometimes faint ribs are present in Sphaeromeria and Crossostephium ). All of the Artemisia -group genera contain species that have been variously placed within the taxonomic boundaries of Artemisia s.l.
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.
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.