How to Use bone in a Sentence

bone

1 of 2 noun

• The handle of the knife is made from bone.
• We are all made of flesh and bone.
• The leg bone is connected to the knee bone.
• He broke a bone in his left arm.
• You may be chilled to the bone.
  — Elise Broach, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• One set of bones turned out to be fake.
  — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 4 Sep. 2025
• The bones in my hands ache with the strain.
  — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• But that doesn’t make bone broth a cure-all.
  — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
• The bones are the same, the roots are the same.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2026
• Old bone breaks down, and new bone forms in its place.
  — Hadia Zainab, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
• Dig down an inch or so, and the soil is still bone dry.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
• Dig down an inch or so, and the soil is still bone dry.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
• Hold the tail and pick the flaky white meat right off the bones.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• What bone will a dog never eat?
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
• My bones hurt a little bit more.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
• Every bone in my body tried to slow me.
  — Emily Exton, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
• Got a bag of chicken bones but no meat?
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
• Wanna throw us a fresh bone here?
  — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 18 June 2026
• It’s baked into our very bones.
  — Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
• To begin with, there were a lot of bones.
  — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
• Twelve years later, an arm bone was found.
  — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 4 Mar. 2026
• Poor bone health is just one knock-on effect.
  — George Ramsay, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
• Schanuel has been out for two weeks with a bone bruise in his left wrist.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
• Again, there’s more meat on this dystopian bone.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2026
• Here’s what to know about pounding the stairs and bone health.
  — Currie Engel, Health, 23 June 2026
• This creamy—but not too thick—chowder will warm you to your bones.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2026
• Keep it simple with the Y-bones.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
• Army comes with a lot more meat on their bones, and a lot more downhill.
  — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
• The scene shifts to a young male, who pulls a large bone from a skeleton.
  — Cat Bohannon, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2023
• When our feet and legs carry our body weight, that places stress on our bones.
  — Adam Cohen, Oklahoman, 3 Mar. 2026

bone

2 of 2 verb

• Moose are heavy, thus some hunters bone their meat in the field to lighten the loads.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2019
• Can Trump begin to bone up on the issues and seek a wider range of views?
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
• Arrange the marrow bones on oval serving plates.
  — The Know, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
• It gets boned out before being rubbed down with a cure laced with spices like juniper and bay leaves.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 29 Mar. 2017
• Buy a quality honing steel with your boning knife and learn how to use it.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2019
• Last month, a bicyclist near Pittsburgh was t-boned by a deer.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 12 May 2017
• No how matter tall and big-boned Benjamin might be, that’s not wideout weight.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 30 Apr. 2017
• The patrol car then spun to the right and was T-boned by another car, police said.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2020
• Jeremy was unable to stop in time, T-boned the vehicle and was thrown off the bike.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2017
• The van had been T-boned and crumpled by the big pickup, and it was wedged between the pickup and a traffic-light pole.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• Chicken with the skin on and bone in is typically cheaper than boneless, skinless cuts.
  — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 31 Jan. 2026
• And those who hunt in areas where the disease is known to occur should bone out their meat and not consume the brain, spine or lymph nodes, experts said.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• The look featured a black skirt and asymmetric element, with a corseted top and exposed boning on the bodice.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that ravages bone, leaving distinctive holes in its wake.
  — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
• From all directions at once, the butchers were crushing toward the exits, holding their boning knives and cleavers aloft.
  — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
• Arrange the marrow bones on a jelly-roll pan or baking sheet with sides and roast on the middle shelf of the oven for about 14 minutes.
  — The Know, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
• In 2013, one of his deputies ran a traffic light and T-boned the car of a civilian driver, who was badly injured.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
• Six days after the photo, the car Richards was riding in went sideways, came to a stop and was T-boned by another vehicle.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 18 Feb. 2020
• Hamburger patties are made from all-American beef, with whole chucks boned and ground by in-house butchers, delivered fresh and never frozen.
  — George A. Paul, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
• Cut a horizontal pocket in each chop by cutting horizontally from the fat side almost to bone on opposite side.
  — Maddy Bendgen, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2026
• Both ships made last-minute turns that resulted in the Stockholm T-boning the Andrea Doria.
  — Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 24 Jan. 2020
• Last year, before his inaugural outing, the chef had to bone up on his testicle technique, on how best to handle the plump glistening organs.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2017
• No media outlet reports that a pickup that got T-boned was a dark color or that a motorcycle didn’t have its daytime running lights on at the time of a crash.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2020
• The confit, slowly cooked in duck fat, is rich, moist, easily boned, leaner than the duck version and astonishingly versatile.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• Uchis wrapped up her Australian tour yesterday by posing in a garden wearing a semi-sheer, boned corset and a golden belt wrapped around her waist that spelled out her last name in large letters.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2019
• For the outing, Jenner wore a floral chiffon frock by Duygu Ay Collection, cinched at the waist with a sheeny, boned corset.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2019
• Victoria’s date is next, because the producers have to put the person who asked the Bachelor not to bone the two other women after those two other women.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• The cargo ship, which is about four times heavier, nearly T-boned the Navy destroyer when much of the crew was asleep and the bridge likely manned by less than a dozen people, Tracy reports.
  — CBS News, 19 June 2017
• That meant giving them a brief lesson on moose anatomy before handing out gloves and four-inch de-boning knives to start cutting under the supervision of Mason and a couple parent volunteers.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
• Larssen told the Ledger-Transcript that for part of the slide, the SUV was almost t-boned until Martin, who drove the vehicle, was able to pull out.
  — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026