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Sentence Examples Every sort of mask was laid out, kings, princesses, cows, snakes, skeletons, cats and even a lovely ballerina. Random checks on departmental stores and godowns will bring the skeletons out of the cupboard. These funeral towers, or chullpas, have been heavily looted and were empty, but skeletons were found in the underground tombs. As the leaves fall off the trees, leaving twiggy skeletons to draw broken brush strokes on the sky, I add further layers to my outdoor clothing. The rain had kept many away, but the skeletons, goblins and ghouls considered it a minor obstacle. All the while he uses his sword to clear his path of ghouls, skeletons and all sorts of unyielding dead things. They feed on many types microscopic algae that grow on calcareous material, such as coral skeletons. The British gangster film has always housed the skeletons of Shakespearean tragedy within it. Marine invertebrates with hard shells and skeletons of chitin or lime are more conducive to fossil preservation than soft-bodied creatures. Why did some of them choose infaunal life at approximately the same time that other organisms developed mineralized skeletons? In them are the bones of hundreds of dinosaurs, including skeletons of giant brontosaurs which were mired in soft mud. Australopithecus postcranial skeletons demonstrate that these forms were upright bipeds. Interestingly, there are also tombs, skeletons and death's heads, along with some shocking acts of violence. The fragmentary nature of the rest of the skeletons recovered made gender identification impossible. They did, however, think the skeletons looked very unusual, being very highly flexed, like Peruvian mummies. Buried in shallow trenches, the fleshless skeletons were exhumed right after the war. The best thing is therefore to fillet any fish you are going to put in the curry, and use all the heads and skeletons to make the stock. Most biological hydraulic skeletons are cylindrical and their walls are reinforced by relatively inextensible fibers. Most of the humanoid skeletons had been picked clean, but they hadn't had time to bleach white. He spotted silky cobwebs and hanging skeletons placed around the old wooden walls. Show More Sentences It coated the world in a pale flurry, casting a ghostlike pallor and creating moon shadows among the skeletons of trees. Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone. In addition, he discovered the first Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus skeletons in the hogback ridge to the southwest of the Table Mountains. Deposits of their skeletons produced much of the Mesozoic chalk and limestone. Then the skeletons, stubborn bits of flesh and muscle still clinging to the bones, move on to the bug room. The stromatoporoids had massive calcareous skeletons that are preserved as rather conspicuous fossils. There ought to be thousands of animal carcasses and skeletons lying around. A little showman in a candy-striped jacket and straw hat is dancing before an audience composed entirely of shrouded skeletons. The skeletons of dead chromists accumulate on the floor of lakes and oceans, where they may become thick deposits of silica or calcium carbonate. Organisms as diverse as phytoplankton, corals, crabs and molluscs lay down limestone or calcium carbonate skeletons. Corals build their skeletons from waterborne calcium carbonate, the same mineral that makes limestone. Cartilaginous skeletons are lighter than bone and help sharks to remain neutrally buoyant. A cloud was slowly spiraling towards the sun and they retreated, moving to the edge of the forest, watching the skeletons appear one by one. Witches arrived on their broomsticks and skeletons travelled in large numbers to the party. No skeletons have fallen from closets and his reputation remains unsullied. Seventy-two of the skeletons fall into the Natufian period, which predates settled agriculture. I managed to blast my way through the unending hordes of troops and into a desert canyon full of skeletons. When we think of secrets, we think of all those the skeletons in the closet. First and foremost is that there should not be any skeletons in the cupboard. On either side the rusting skeletons of dead trucks lined the route like a line of memento mori. Show More Sentences I was only 5 when I first saw it and for years just couldn't comprehend that the emaciated distressed skeletons shown were actually people. During their first cold winter, Lewis shipped a collection of skins, horns, skeletons, and prairie plants back down the Missouri. The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive. But there is also a downside to fame, the one in which family skeletons are dusted down in public. The skeletons show an even spread of the representative population at that time. The skeletons of outsized Victorian sofas and armchairs lies dotted around the parquet floors, their chintz entirely eaten away by white ants. The freshwater sawfish, a ray, is related to stingrays, skates, sharks, and other fishes with cartilaginous skeletons. Do you think it is appropriate to keep skeletons for future scientific work? Scientists have found skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. Unlike many fish, which have bony skeletons, shark skeletons are made entirely of cartilage, which grows throughout the animal's life. Almost all of the skeletons are entirely disarticulated, obscuring our view of what occurred after death. She is quite unique as an A-list celebrity without too many skeletons in her closet. Under Dittrich skeletons were studied and sketched as anatomical specimens, not always skull to toe. They do still have two skeletons of Tarbosaurus, a theropod dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus rex. The researchers kept digging and uncovered one of the most complete skeletons ever found from this time period, the middle Miocene epoch. The richest sources of diatom fossils are deposits of their skeletons known as diatomite, or diatomaceous earth. Each grows more suspicious of the others as possible motives are revealed and skeletons are dragged out of the closet. Physical anthropologists have concluded that the skulls of two of the oldest skeletons are quite different from those of modern American Indians. While human bodies have skeletons of bones, our cells have a framework made of a filamentous network. There the articulated skeletons of many extinct mammals have been preserved in a bed of volcanic ash. Show More Sentences It was an ingenious but uncertainly developed theme of skipping skeletons and skulls descending hellward. With the skeletons were Upper Palaeolithic flint tools of Aurignacian type and signs of decorative art in the form of pierced sea shells. The lake basin includes piles of skeletons of large mammals such as fallow deer, red deer, and aurochs, the ancestor of modern cattle. This tendency towards dextrality was explored further by examining a museum collection of extremities of walrus skeletons. It wasn't horribly interesting watching a bunch of natural tar pits and the skeletons of animals that were found in them. We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. The company performs within an amphitheater of stark, branched miniature tree skeletons painted white. Thorough due diligence is required as part of the prenuptial process so that unforeseen skeletons in closets are discovered before, not after, marriage. Living on the edge of precipices, it will raise skeletons high into the sky, dash them onto the rocks, and then extract the marrow with its curved beak. Sugars are vital components of life, e.g. the 5-carbon sugars ribose and deoxyribose are part of the skeletons of our information storage molecules, RNA and DNA respectively. Far be it from us to reveal any skeletons in the mayor-elect's tree cupboard, but he was once red-carded by a referee for cavorting about the pitch with a blow-up doll. This was a remarkable claim since Andreas Vesalius and modern anatomists had drawn human skeletons from observation and dissection since the sixteenth century. In the main collecting area, recovered and uncollected articulated skeletons of thero-pod, ankylosaurian and protoceratopsian dinosaurs represent over 100 individuals. A family of heavily armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs, the nodosaurids, is represented by partial skeletons of a ten-foot-long creature known as Silvisaurus. Katniss walks through mountains of skeletons, at one point recoiling in horror as she inadvertently steps on a skull. Slaves bought in Mozambique were often from the Makua, Yao or Maravi groups, who practised dental decoration of the patterns noted in these skeletons. Most of the evil dead are formed as skeletons which only crumble when destroyed rather than burst into a mess of blood and guts as they did in the first two movies. Despite the towers of skeletons, Tamerlane described himself as a peaceful man. In other words, much of metazoan evolution was cryptic, bound up in tiny animals devoid of skeletons and perhaps surviving as interstitial benthic microfauna. Inorganic nitrogen assimilation, in the form of ammonium, onto carbon skeletons for the production of amino acids is one of the most important biochemical processes in plants. Show More Sentences The Mg content of rugose coral skeletons may thus have varied as a reflection of changing physico-chemical parameters in the marine environment through time. Some sponges bore into the shells of bivalves, gastropods, and the colonial skeletons of corals by slowly etching away chips of calcareous material. They are largely silicified replacements of the once opaline skeletons, but details of their spicular and skeletal relationships are moderately well preserved. Far from worrying about musty family skeletons in aristocratic cupboards, noble pedigrees are advertised and the smallest cup-full of blue blood proudly proclaimed. Most adults, whether in jail or not, have skeletons in the closet. People say you don't go very far back before you find some skeletons in the closet but what I found out about my great great grandfather hit me quite hard. By keeping the skeletons in the cupboard, the city's face is saved. When the dead leaves rustle, the wind rattles the skeletons of trees, and ragged clouds scud across a murky moon, there's an ominous frisson in the air. Most living demosponges have skeletons of unfused spicules, although due to preservational effects, the fossil record of demosponges is mostly of fused forms. The boxfish, for example, is an aquatic tank with two bony skeletons, one on the inside to support its innards and one on the outside to deter predators. The gasping clouds of my breath mingled with the fog as I followed the spoor, pushing through denuded branches and the winter skeletons of undergrowth. As well as dinosaur skeletons, the exhibition will feature dinosaur eggs, claws, teeth, skeletal spines, large plesiosaurs, tiny nothosaurs, turtles and other marine reptiles. Only in low-energy environments is the sea bottom stable enough to allow the benthic, temperate carbonate producers to develop their calcareous skeletons. The neighbouring Museum of Natural History has the third-largest dinosaur collection in the world, including skeletons of tyrannosaurus rex, diplodocus and stegosaurus. The skeletons of most cartilaginous fish did not fossilize at all. The Gogo reef was a different kind of reef, no symbiosis between polyp and algae, more a community of sponges and sea mosses that formed hard skeletons. There are two topologically distinct pentahedral graphs which, through duality, correspond to the skeletons of the square pyramid and triangular dipyramid. Happily cohabiting with her partner of 28 years, she has a talented daughter, and no skeletons have emerged from the closet of her beautiful Toronto home. The vibrant herbaceous life had retreated underground, but the skeletons of rattlesnake master, asters, goldenrods and other composites remained among the grasses. Fossil sponges can be identified by the arrangement of their skeletons, which consist of collections of spicules with characteristic shapes and chemical constitutions. Show More Sentences How can art compete with skeletons and gangrenous hands in glass jars? The people dress up as ghouls, ghosts, mummies and skeletons. Further, older autozooids in major proximal regions of some large dendroid colonies stopped growing skeletons outwardly as distal colony growth continued. Taken at face value, the question seems simple enough but scratch it and the hidden prejudices and stereotypes tumble out of the cupboard like the proverbial skeletons. He shares his office with skeletons in various stages of dishabille, but that's part of the job for the manager of medical illustration at the Medical University. Canadian studies of skeletons reveal they may have had an inflatable sac inside their bodies which allowed them to float and punt along in shallow water. The detonation of an unexploded bomb discovered along with the German skeletons sends its fragments across the town, causing damage that is more symbolic than physical. The apparent ease with which the sponge skeletons disarticulated before burial makes our discovery of well-preserved specimens of special interest. A small number of the skeletons were in long cists but the majority were simple shroud burials. As a result, the skeletons are well preserved, but skin and most internal organs have not been preserved. Little fossil remains of bats exist, as their delicate skeletons do not fossilize very well. When these organisms die, their skeletons sink to the bottom, forming a thick layer of calcareous mud that may lithify into limestone. The shallow, warm water is an ideal habitat for many small organisms that build carbonate skeletons. Fossils can be both the direct remains or imprints of organisms and their skeletons. We cook up a feast of rice, mole, and chicharron, and we leave spaces at the table for the clay skeletons dressed in party clothes. Analysis of the pathology of the skeletons shows that the humans of this period led a physically difficult life. The partial skeletons tend to include the hind limbs and hips, while parts of the anterior body and neck are rarely found in isolation. All sites yielded almost complete and partial skeletons of Plateosaurus, as well as isolated bones. Older skeletons showed the most extensive pitting, whereas calves showed no damage. In 1880, when Windhouse was renovated, skeletons were found under the floor of the building. Show More Sentences Comb jellies, just globes of shimmering film in today's oceans, may have had rigid skeletons and hard plates millions of years ago. The presence of healed bone fractures in prehistoric skeletons is frequently noted in palaeopathological analyses. It consists of coccoliths, microscopically small calcite skeletons of coccolithophores, a type of algae that prospered in the Cretaceous seas. Testing the gerbil theory by analyzing DNA from European plague victims' skeletons. Other papers consider taphonomic comparisons of australopithecine skeletons from South Africa and homonids as taphonomic agents. Roger lovingly describes radiolarians, some of which build skeletons of strontium sulfate while others manage to eat multicelled animals. It is clear that the parts of the goat skeletons that survive best are the unchewable ones. It narrates how some skeletons were found in one of the French Departments semihuman in character, the body apish, and the skull human. Though skeletons rarely survive in Wales' acidic soil, this skeleton was probably preserved by the addition of lime from the collapsed building. The rock is composed of the microscopic skeletons of plankton which lived in the sea, hence its colour. However, in 2015 Oxford Archaeology discovered a Saxon burial site near the riverside with 76 skeletons from the late 7th or early 8th century. The outbreak had been severe enough that the colonists discovered unburied skeletons in abandoned dwellings. Specimens younger than this date make up the bulk of known Neanderthal skeletons and were the first whose anatomy was comprehensively studied. In total, 15 skeletons were discovered in the cave, representing the largest ever discovery of hominin fossils on the continent of Africa. Drake's men saw weathered and bleached skeletons on the grim Spanish gibbets. Analysis of the crew skeletons shows many had suffered malnutrition, and had evidence of rickets, scurvy, and other deficiency diseases. Comparison of bird and dinosaur skeletons through cladistic analysis strengthens the case for the link. Few of the specimens that are recovered are complete skeletons, and impressions of skin and other soft tissues are rare. Taphonomic change in fish skeletons from Blombos Cave have been interpreted as capture of live fish, clearly an intentional human behavior. But Aka is also found in skeletons of hexactinellids and lithistids in Jurassic sponge mounds. Show More Sentences The fossil record of snakes is relatively poor because snake skeletons are typically small and fragile making fossilization uncommon. Grimaldi man was a name given in the early 20th century to an Italian find of two paleolithic skeletons of short, but finely built people. These skeletons are the remains of people buried in peat between 5,000 and 8,000 years ago, during the Early and Middle Archaic period in the Americas. The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences houses the world's largest hall completely dedicated to dinosaurs, with its collection of 30 fossilized Iguanodon skeletons. When found, the skeletons were the subject of dubious scientific theories on human evolution, partly fueled by biased reconstruction of the skulls by the scientists involved. In acidified acetone, the above mentioned skeletons yielded yellow or orange organic solutions which float above a colourless cloudly aqueous solution. Indeed, despite their tender years, there are more skeletons rattling around in the closet on Glue than at the house of a kleptomaniac paleontologist. Jocelyne Desideri examined the teeth in skeletons from Bell Beaker sites in Northern Spain, Southern France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Tappan gave a survey of dinoflagellates with internal skeletons. Russian paleontologists discovered six articulated skeletons of the large duckbilled dinosaur Saurolophus, many of them complete with skin impressions. In this study, Muriel Masson and colleagues at the University of Szeged examined seventy-one human skeletons from a 7000-year-old site in the south of Hungary. Several finds date to the Bronze Age, including a bronze socketed axe, two human skeletons, and sherds of pottery from burial urns and other vessels. They served as an underground ossuary for more than 6 million skeletons. The Celebration, which opened last month in New York and LA, digs up the skeletons in a wealthy family's closet with all the tact of a tabloid show. Among its collection are the skeletons of a Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, and the most complete remains of a dodo found anywhere in the world. Carbonate hardgrounds were thus very common, along with calcitic ooids, calcitic cements, and invertebrate faunas with dominantly calcitic skeletons. An example of a rock formed of silica skeletons is radiolarite. Attached to the surface are coiled serpulid worm skeletons, muddy or chitinous tube worm casts up to 5 cm long, brittle starfish, and benthic foraminifera. Warm shallow marine environments also are ideal environments for coral reefs, where the sediment consists mainly of the calcareous skeletons of larger organisms. There are actually five skeletons, possibly from the 9th century during the period of Viking raids, and Sir Alfred has not notified the police of the find. Show More Sentences Are there really busloads of ghoulish skeletons driving through town? Several skeletons, potshards, weapons, and jewels were discovered here, dating from the 5th and 6th century, attesting to Seraing being inhabited in Frankish times. Where it enters the lake, a gunner can lean against the bleached skeletons of dead trees to ambush goldeneyes, redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads and scaup. The research included an examination of the original fossils and a comparison with skeletons of modern humans and protohumans and also chimpanzees. Examples from Classical Literature The answer is given to us by the skeletons found in the cave of Cro-Magnon. Here also was made the rare discovery of the skeletons of two horses, with the remains of a biga. What had been a flourishing cattle country was a boneyard where the agents of fertilizer factories bargained for skeletons. The skeletons and shells of animals are made of calcite, a common mineral formed by the uniting of carbon, oxygen, and calcium. Except in three dried skeletons, teeth were counted on dentigerous bones in situ. It really consists of the internal skeletons of coral-polyps, allied to the sea anemone. Siliceous skeletons of chara and filamentous alg were also found upon a close examination in some of these molds. No perfect skeletons from which we can ascertain their statures remain to us. These rocks preserve, by the fossils they contain, a great variety of shellfish which had limy skeletons. The living corals one sees in the shallow water of the Florida coast to-day are building land by building up their limy skeletons. The lower chamber contained two skeletons, one of which is supposed to have been a female. It is only when we are skeletons that we are boxed and ticketed and prized and shown. Many skeletons had a single turquois near the mastoid process of the skull, showing that they had been worn as ear pendants. Herein they are strongly contrasted with skeletons of the Neanderthal group. It may be asked how the osteologist can distinguish the tame from the wild races of the same species by their skeletons alone. The contracted bodies are skeletons, as in the case of most of the predynastic bodies. Great tufts of retem, like fleshless skeletons, were tossed to right and left. Some skeletons of poulps are preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, that measure two yards in length. Sixty-three skeletons were found here, many of them in Irons. We're looking for pictures of the ghastliest ghosts, scariest skeletons, cutest pumpkins and most wicked witches around. Show More Sentences And there's a headless man stalks up and down the path and skeletons glower at you between the boughs. Unrobed tombs with disarticulated skeletons strongly indicate tomb reuse at this time period. Rarities, such as unembellished watercolour landscapes and sketches of animated skeletons, help explain the origins of his oil paintings. He leaped from the rock and plunged through the fringing skeletons. They are mere ghosts, their skeletons wrapped in a shroud of whitewash. The delicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults and had their household gods and kitchen utensils with them. No associated implements or remains of mammalian skeletons are recorded. Aren't there any dungeons or built-up skeletons or secret hiding-places? Within it was found a cist containing two skeletons nearly entire. He was a great parliamentarian who knew where all the skeletons lay and was a great cross-examiner. The almond trees, denuded of their leaves, shook like black skeletons. The skeletons will now be analysed by osteologists from Museum of London Archaeology. Indeed it was the sight of White rearranging Sassenach skeletons at Murrayfield last year that inspired his team to a famous victory. In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face in length and breadth and curvature differs enormously. There are two bronze skeletons bearing scrolls, and two great dragons uphold the sarcophagus. Fishes intended for skeletons should never be placed in formalin. They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us. Tiesler and Cucina analyse the frontal bones of ancient Maya skeletons. After laying his head on the desk for a little while, he would cheer up, somehow, begin to laugh again, and draw skeletons all over his slate, before his eyes were dry. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of skeletons? Words that rhyme with skeletons What is the adverb for skeletons? What is the adjective for skeletons? What is the noun for skeletons? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words skeletonized skeletonize skeleton in the cupboard skeleton in the closet skeleton crew skeleton skeletons in the closet skeleton staff skell skellig skellum skelly 9-letter Words Starting With s sk ske skel skele skelet skeleto skeleton