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
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
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Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2026
That spire of skulls will likely play heavily into the horror hit's sequel, The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta (Hedda) and written by 28 Years Later scribe Alex Garland (Civil War).
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
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
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Noun
Researchers later realized that a femur found alongside the skull fragments belonged to the hominin, but when it was first analyzed, researchers saw no evidence for bipedalism.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2026
That spire of skulls will likely play heavily into the horror hit's sequel, The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta (Hedda) and written by 28 Years Later scribe Alex Garland (Civil War).
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
Verb
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
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“Skull.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skull. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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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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