plural skulls
1
: the skeleton of the head of a vertebrate forming a bony or cartilaginous case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws
2
: the seat of understanding or intelligence : mind see also out of one's skull
skulled
adjective
… the craniate (skulled) vertebrates …
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— usually used in combinationlarge-skulled
skulled; skulling; skulls
1
: to hit on the head
2
: to unintentionally hit (a golf ball or shot) with the bottom edge of the clubface
Synonyms
Examples of skull in a Sentence
Noun
He had a fractured skull.
paleoanthropologists recently found the skull of a prehistoric man in a remote area of the desert
Recent Examples on the WebAmaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
The device employed bone conduction, by which sound is passed through vibration of the skull bone.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2024
In 2007, back when the skull discovery was first announced, his collaborator Kappelman mused in a draft of a press release about where other pieces might have ended up.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2024
The dancer then had a successful cranioplasty surgery to replace a portion of her skull and has been on the mend since.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024
That auction, according to a press release, saw various Disneyland props sold, including a functional audio-animatronic singing Tiki Bird from the beloved Tiki Room, as well as a pirate skull prop from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
—Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
The skulls in question have rows of teeth carved with deep horizontal grooves.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
While the original look came down the runway with a latex skull cap, squash goggles, and square-toed Oxfords with black socks, Delevingne feminized the look, and brought it closer to Cabaret’s origins.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
Known for its longer, flatter, skull and large molars, the Louisiana subspecies is genetically distinct from other black bear populations in North America.
—Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2024
oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
And, most incredibly, not after skulling a bunker shot on the par-5 14th, then hacking out to 30 feet.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 June 2019
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019
This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place?
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2018
Someone took out a golf driver and skulled the top off of a full can of Bud Light and drank what was left.
—Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2018
Noun
Slightly more than half of that is embedded in the skull.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
The device employed bone conduction, by which sound is passed through vibration of the skull bone.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2024
In 2007, back when the skull discovery was first announced, his collaborator Kappelman mused in a draft of a press release about where other pieces might have ended up.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2024
The dancer then had a successful cranioplasty surgery to replace a portion of her skull and has been on the mend since.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024
That auction, according to a press release, saw various Disneyland props sold, including a functional audio-animatronic singing Tiki Bird from the beloved Tiki Room, as well as a pirate skull prop from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
—Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
The skulls in question have rows of teeth carved with deep horizontal grooves.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
While the original look came down the runway with a latex skull cap, squash goggles, and square-toed Oxfords with black socks, Delevingne feminized the look, and brought it closer to Cabaret’s origins.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
Known for its longer, flatter, skull and large molars, the Louisiana subspecies is genetically distinct from other black bear populations in North America.
—Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2024
Verb
Another decade passed and, in 2019, the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office received a grant to begin DNA analysis on more than 100 sets of unidentified remains, the Mount Hood skull among them.
—oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
And, most incredibly, not after skulling a bunker shot on the par-5 14th, then hacking out to 30 feet.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 June 2019
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019
This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place?
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2018
Someone took out a golf driver and skulled the top off of a full can of Bud Light and drank what was left.
—Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2018
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skull
noun
: the skeleton of the head forming a bony case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws
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