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skeleton Noun

— The bones that support the body of an animal or person.

skeleton

— noun the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape the building has a steel skeleton — noun a scandal that is kept secret there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet — noun something reduced to its minimal form the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self the bare skeleton of a novel — noun (= frame) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

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skeleton English » English

framework frame bone bones skull skeletal system skeletal frame body underframe systema skeletale structure skeleton in the cupboard skeleton in the closet outline hull fuselage death carcass build backbone very thin vampire undercarriage trunk stem skinny sketch sick shinbone shell seed scull pit marrow log exoskeleton draft design dead person dead animal corpus complex body part chassis casing body structure bodily structure bod bare bones bald head atomy

Topics skeleton topics

What do people use skeleton to talk about?

Person Body

Bone, joint

What words refer to the entire set of bones?

skeleton skeletal

Person Life Die

Corpse

What words refer to a body after it has decayed?

remains bones skeleton

States Big Thick

Thin person

What words refer to someone who is thin?

scarecrow skeleton bag of bones

Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal

What tools are used by robbers?

gun knife pick safe cracking tools skeleton key mask gloves get away car

Examples skeleton examples

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Simple sentences

The average human body contains enough bones to make an entire human skeleton.

There is a skeleton in every closet.

Every family has a skeleton in the closet.

The poor old man was reduced to just a skeleton.

The explorers discovered a skeleton in the cave.

The bones build up a skeleton.

The bones form a skeleton.

Tom has a skeleton key.

I heard they found a skeleton buried in the basement of a house on Park Street.

The skeleton of Richard III was discovered under a parking lot.

Tom found a skeleton in the cave.

He looks just like a skeleton.

He's so thin that he looks like a skeleton.

Tom dressed as a skeleton for Halloween.

Movie subtitles

I'm turning to a skeleton.

Have you got the skeleton key?

In three hours, I can get together a skeleton crew, enough to handle her.

It ain't turned to no skeleton at all.

From this vertebra, I'll be able to reconstruct the entire skeleton.

Listen, baby, don't be surprised if we discover an old skeleton in here.

We only have a skeleton force, the rest are on patrol.

What do you mean? - You're rattling the skeleton.

My name is Bones. I am also known as the human skeleton.

Oh, you mean there's a ghost as well as a skeleton in everyone's cupboard?

That must be the skeleton of Dr. Niemann, who revitalized him years ago.

Fair or not fair, give it here, you avaricious old skeleton. Give it.

Fifty years later, they found her skeleton.

This unique skeleton is the result of 20 years unceasing labor.

Soon the bare skeleton of the building rolls over, the gaunt rafters against the sky.

How about your skeleton key just for good measure?

You're rattling the skeleton.

I'm also known as the Human Skeleton.

Perhaps an ordinary skeleton key.

And why chart the skeleton of a child?

Do you expect your patrons to believe that the skeleton you show them is really that of Count Dracula?

So that by proxy, shall we say, the skeleton of his earthbound spirit might lie at peace within his grave.

Ladies and gentlemen, the actual skeleton of Count Dracula, the vampire!

A stake driven through a skeleton's heart.

Nicky always says that there's a skeleton in nearly every closet.

Its skeleton should've remained.

We will produce the skeleton of that cat.

Cape Cod skeleton case.

Oh, you mean the skeleton girl.

Especially Jirka. That was not the same thing as a skeleton in a museum.

Skeleton key.

But there's a skeleton inside! It looks horrible!

Oh, I found a small tape beside a skeleton and it, er, might be able to tell us something.

Bret here was searching for someone and the skeleton I found was humanoid.

The body is covered with a self-renewing plastic over a skeleton of beryllium-titanium alloy.

We're working a skeleton crew.

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