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bones

a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

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Simple sentences

The average human body contains enough bones to make an entire human skeleton.
Our dog buries its bones in the garden.
He makes no bones about admitting it.
The scientist searched for the bones of the dinosaurs in the valley.
This fish has a lot of small bones in it.
X rays are used to locate breaks in bones.
The dog ate the fish, bones, tail and all.
Dogs often bury bones.
I don't like to eat fish with many bones.
The judge made no bones about his disgust with the accused's actions and handed down the severest sentence possible.
I saw the old man feed his dog chicken bones.
Such a thing as disliking fish because they have bones - that just can't be a reason for disliking them.
I feel in my bones that the party will be a great success.
The icy wind cut us to the bones.
He'll not live to make old bones.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
No steam breaks bones.
You shouldn't feed chicken bones to dogs.

Movie subtitles

Are you saying Lord Choi had that bones tomb buried?
It is this crosspiece that acts as both the bones supporting the body of the biwa as well as its heart.
And the occasional procedural drama like Bones.
I'm never watching Bones, though.
I freaking love Bones.
There he sat, resting his weary bones as the icy wind howled through the knothole.
Two men walked and never talked, hunger gnawed their bones.
His face is like leprous parchment, yellow skin strung tight over protruding bones!
Well, bad words break no bones, and they're wonderful for hardening the heart.
Rags, bones.
Bones.
All bones and no bend.
If I can see his blackened bones, I can sleep at night.
I hope her bones are firm.
I felt it in my bones.
What is that, Mr Bones?
Any rags? Any bones?
A place where he can lay his bones with his ancestors.
Or let me tell you, I'll break your bones.
And ere the sun sinks your bones will join theirs and lie bleaching in the desert wastes.
Don't babies have any bones?
If you only knew what a loathsome feeling it is when fear penetrates deep into your bones.
Running around digging up a lot of old bones.
Off with its head. - Break its bones. - Chop it to pieces.
I got about 100 bones that need a few hours to heal. Hmm?
It is this crosspiece that acts as both the bones supporting the body of the biwa as well as its heart. if this crosspiece was merely straight and stiff and everything was tight and tense you wouldn't get much sound from it.
There's two explanations that strike me, either the body was stolen by the members of a death cult that use human bones in their ceremonies, or else.
I can feel it in my bones.
Break its bones. -Chop it to pieces.
I'll fix ya. I'll fix ya! I'll crush your bones!
Bones, not boots.
But we have skin on our bones.
Then we yank out their bones!
He didn't use the sign. Martin Bones.
Is it? My friend, with your acidity, you can digest bones.

News and current affairs

The bones of contention that wrecked previous attempts to reach an Israeli-Syrian peace have realistic solutions, as was shown by the back-channel peace talks recently held between an Israeli ex-official and a Syrian with close connections to the regime.
But the doctors made no bones about what Armstrong was to receive: extremely caustic drugs that would make him sick as a dog.
Football is an opportunity to experience the thrill of combat, without risking much more than a few broken bones.
Over time, if uncorrected, major depression can cause such conditions as progressive mineral loss from bones, accumulation of abdominal fat, increased blood platelet reactivity, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
A realist in his bones, Putin recognizes Russia's changed status.
For Russia's public knows deep in its bones that Russia's bloated yet ineffective state is the greatest threat to its economy.
They know in their bones that the system is out to get them, even if the system is represented by a commercial airliner from a foreign country.
Slaughtered at only 45 days old, their immature bones can hardly bear the weight of their bodies.
Those islands that have been well explored archaeologically yield bones of species the Polynesians exterminated, while the islands now lack them.
The number of species known to have expired between 1500 and 1800 is increasing as taxonomists describe new species from skeletal remains they find in caves, for example, where bones survive.
The Madrid bombings have made Europeans feel the scourge of terrorism in their bones.
Nor is federation an alternative--as the terms of the federation itself become the bones of contention (see Bosnia or Cyprus).
If the G-20 fails to put policy meat on its rhetorical bones, it will risk looking weak and irrelevant.
The EU also needs to put meat on the bones of its new Neighborhood Policy, while NATO must apply new mechanisms for strengthening ties with the region.
Now, the new financial markets commissioner, the United Kingdom's Lord Jonathan Hill, has been assigned the unenviable task of putting flesh on bare bones.
Fossil bones are harvested and made into mounted skeletons, often with little regard for accuracy.
Even if she persists, she may break her teeth on the same bones of contention that kept her predecessors from achieving security and peace.
Slaughtered at only 45 days old, their immature bones can hardly bear the weight of their bodies. Some collapse and, unable to reach food or water, soon die, their fate irrelevant to the economics of the enterprise as a whole.
When this grain, which humans could eat directly, is fed to chickens, they use some of it to create bones and feathers and other body parts that we cannot eat.

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