Examples of whalebone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Panniers, those underskirt structures that exaggerated hips, were a 16th-century version of shapewear; so were steel or whalebone and canvas corsets. — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 Made using materials like whalebone and metal, corsets contained and constrained women’s bodies, keeping them in place (literally and figuratively). — Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021 The town’s oldest buildings are clustered together near the Utqiaġvik Presbyterian Church, marked with a whalebone sign dated 1898. — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021 Later iterations included girdles and corsets made of whalebone, iron and leather. — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 8 May 2021 Traditionally fashioned with metal or whalebone stays and laced up the back, the waist-cinching, bust-elevating garment has cycled in and out of style for centuries. — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2021 That particular task was messy; the harvesting of whale parts — oil to light lamps and use in cosmetics, baleen for whalebone corsets, tongue for food — was hard labor. — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021 Mark Tetpon makes original hoop masks that tell Iñupiaq stories in ivory, wood, fossilized whalebone and baleen. — Danielle Duclos, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2020 That giant whalebone is the first major find this fall at a Bay Area beach. — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019 See More

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