BONES in a Sentence

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For BONES, below is one of 218 sentences:
At first, Melanie wanted to hold Scarlett's hand when the pain was bad but she clamped down on it so hard she nearly broke the bones.

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 Meanings and Examples of BONES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bone
 n.  any of the pieces of hard tissue making up the skeleton in body
Classic Sentence: (166 in 12 pages)
1  The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  In his eyes, there was a fagged, haunted look, and the sunburned skin was tight across the fine bones of his face--her same handsome Ashley, yet so very different.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  At first, Melanie wanted to hold Scarlett's hand when the pain was bad but she clamped down on it so hard she nearly broke the bones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  His hip bones stood out like an old cow's, his ribs showed like a washboard and his back was a mass of sores.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  The high cheek bones were more prominent, the hawk-bridged nose was sharper and her copper skin gleamed with a brighter hue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  The pretty roundness left her face, throwing her cheek bones into prominence, emphasizing her slanting green eyes and giving her the look of a prowling, hungry cat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  There was an air of studied and determined cheerfulness about the whole family which brought a colder chill to Scarlett's bones than the bitterness of Mimosa or the deathly brooding of Pine Bloom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  This was one stone wall too many and she suddenly felt so tired that her bones ached.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  She patted her cheeks, felt frantically at her collar bones, feeling them stand out through her basque.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  When she made feeble swimming motions to come back to consciousness, she was tired to her bones, weak, bewildered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  If they amounted to anything they'd have stayed where they were, instead of coming down here to pick our bones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  She was so thin that her small bones seemed ready to come through her white skin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  We could have been happy, for I loved you and I know you, Scarlett, down to your bones, in a way that Ashley could never know you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
17  The earth is the great parent of all, the stones are her bones; these we may cast behind us; this, I think, the oracle means.
18  When he broke his leg, he sat around the house all day waiting for the bones to knit.
19  They found a small recess in the one nearest the base of the rock, with a pallet of blankets spread down in it; also an old suspender, some bacon rind, and the well-gnawed bones of two or three fowls.
20  More than half of people who take part in sport have suffered an injury such as sprain ligaments, tendon tears and broken bones.
21  You finished the goose, with the bones and the beak; Pray how did you manage to do it?
22  A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
23  A good dog deserves a good bone.
24  Two cats and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone, never agree in one.
25  Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.
26  He has cracked a bone in his arm.
27  Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
28  While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
29  What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
30  The wind really chills me to the bone.