How to Use cranium in a Sentence

cranium

noun
  • The catheter was poking up from your cranium, its cord stretched back as taut as a tightrope.
    — Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The big cranium was able to house a brain similar in size to our own.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
  • But with only a partial cranium, there wasn’t much to go on.
    — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2026
  • If those precious three pounds of goo in our craniums aren’t ours to control, what is?
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019
  • All those wrinkles allow more surface area of the brain to fit in the cranium.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Her body had needle marks in the left arm, a wound on the right middle finger, and a bruised cranium.
    — Betsy Bonner, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The impact broke his cranium and caused his brain to bleed, landing him in the hospital for five months.
    — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
  • These larger figurines have detachable heads and small holes in their necks and craniums.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Boskop has a face that takes up only about one-fifth of his cranium size, closer to the proportions of a child.
    — Richard Granger, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The other two craniums were found in 1990.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The curve of its cranium is considered a uniquely modern trait.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • Cage's first idea was to appear as a bald character with hair tattooed onto his cranium.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 May 2021
  • There are few things more satisfying than taking a shaver to the cranium and giving your hair the old heave-ho.
    — Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The scans showed pathological bone growths in the cranium and jawbone.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The first is Allium cranium, a pretty little blue onion that grows in clumps.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The eye sockets, by contrast, are easily overlooked on the sides of the cranium.
    — Timothy John Burbery, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Sub-Zero ripping her opponent’s cranium and spinal cord out of her body.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 July 2021
  • Scratches inside her cranium point to the removal of her brain, while long bones like the humeri, femur, and ulna were carved down to sharp points.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
  • The whale, always small for her size, is severely malnourished, with the bones of her cranium showing.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Her lower jaw was missing, and the left side of her cranium was in bad shape, so Nilsson had to rebuild those areas.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The cranium was split in half, the left temple was stabbed possibly with a knife, and the implement was used to pry open the head and remove the brain.
    — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
  • One of the 22 bone-fragment specimens was a cranium with a puncture wound atop the right eye and an exit wound at the back of the head.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2020
  • The skull was lying on its right side, facing the entrance of the burial chamber, and while most of the cranium was intact, no teeth remained.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The second baby’s helmet was fashioned from the cranium of a child between 2 and 12 years old.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Furthermore, the cranium belongs to a 2- or 3-year-old child, for which comparisons are scarce.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Other holes served to anchor the jaws in place and suspend the cranium around the warrior’s neck, while the backs were sawed off to make the skulls lie flat on the wearer’s chest.
    — Gabriel D. Wrobel, The Conversation, 10 June 2019
  • But complete craniums are a rare find; these animals were raised as food, and their skulls were usually broken to retrieve the tongue and brain, the study said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The explosion sent two pieces of the vape pen into the D'Elia's cranium, the autopsy found.
    — CBS News, 16 May 2018
  • Gibson knew it, too; the moment Haniger made contact, the veteran pitcher yelled as if the ball was about to carom off his cranium.
    — Mike Vorel, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
  • Two came off the cleats of Dudukovich and the middle goal came from her cranium, with the assist from freshman Nicki Klosterman.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'cranium.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: