How to Use bony in a Sentence

bony

adjective
  • The startling, bony style of the first two books has been abandoned.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Her face was bony and sharp, and her nar- row, dark eyes sat close together.
    — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
  • My 9-year-old has my husband Mark’s bony frame and square chin.
    — Kelly Meldrum, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The dinosaur was about the size of a raven but double its length with a long, bony tail.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2020
  • But who knew those bony little flappers could also be stuffed?
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
  • Men are rail thin and packed in so tightly that their bony legs intertwine.
    — Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • By the side of the road, a woman bent down over bony branches of firewood.
    — Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Essentially, bunions are bony bumps that form at the base of the big toe.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 27 June 2017
  • Notice the contours of the cat’s body, its soft belly and its bony legs.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2016
  • Freireich glowered at me and pointed a long, bony finger in my face.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times, 12 May 2016
  • Trout in bony rivers are wary, so stealthy wading and presentations are key.
    — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 31 July 2020
  • Horton could see its dinosaur-like leathery scales and bony plates running down its back.
    — Karina Elwood, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Ear buds sit in the outer, soft part of the canal, and some also go slightly into the bony part.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Video shows the polar bear clinging to life, its white hair limply covering its thin, bony frame.
    — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
  • The owner of the bony hand was none other than Marley himself.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
  • No one sees her bony body or her weakened condition, because of her costume.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Sadly, without any of these bony bits, the extra appendage cannot wag like a normal tail.
    — Grace Wade, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Outside of her crate for the first time, the bony mother dog accepted a liver treat from my hand.
    — Kitson Jazynka, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The x-rays also revealed the presence of bony ear tubes in the skull, which act as a balance organ.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2017
  • In the clip, a bony polar bear can be seen walking slowly in search of food, sadly not finding any.
    — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Animals with bony growths known as horns—rhinos, rams, impala—tend to grow them young and keep them their whole life.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
  • But the stool wasn’t used to a stranger’s bony backside and immediately threw her off with its sharp edge.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Pachycephalosaurus had a thick, bony skull with all kinds of jagged protrusions, the better to fight its rivals with.
    — Emma Stefansky, GQ, 21 June 2018
  • The teeth don’t resemble those of lungfish, bony fish, or amphibians.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 17 May 2017
  • Every day, at school, The Witch, with bony hands and beady eyes, worked to dominate us with fear.
    — Naz Riahi, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Despite the bony doctor’s opinion, travel insurance would not have made sense for us.
    — Lorrie Holmgren, Twin Cities, 18 May 2017
  • Its bony external plates, or scutes, were scattered in and around the barrel in which crew members had stored their bounty.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Adam Levine’s 2019 exposure of his bony chest barely got a blip.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Walking into the gallery is diving into a pool of pink and beige and mocha, all sensual curves and bony angles.
    — Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Last year, Stafford played through a fractured process — the bony projection off each vertebrae — in his back.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2019

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