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Their ancestors had carved a civilization out of the ice with tools made from whalebone and meteorite fragments.—Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026 By 1974, though, many women had already discarded those notions as instruments of domination, psychic equivalents of the whalebone corset.—James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 Excavations also uncovered an iron sickle, stone tool, bronze pendant, a pair of beads possibly made of amber and a whalebone tool, the museum said.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025 The goal was to snag as many whales as possible, in pursuit of their highly valuable whale oil (extracted from blubber), sperm oil, and whalebone.—Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 8 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for whalebone