How to Use on the bone in a Sentence

on the bone

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• There’s a lot of meat on the bone.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
• Brady pushed hit putt way right, and still has some meat on the bone.
  — Riley Hamel, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
• There was more meat on the bone in this game for him somehow.
  — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
• There was just a lot of meat on the bone, as some people say.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Two bite marks show a big cat also chomped on the bone at some point.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Goat for the biryani is left on the bone — the neck bone, to be precise.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• The meat on the bone exists with our takeaways.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
• The goat is served as rib meat on the bone, and the buttery pork melts in my mouth.
  — Chris Tharp, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2022
• Tua’s teams, led by Tua himself, left way too much meat on the bone.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
• Too much filler fattening up this episode, and too little meat on the bone.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• As Hill ate like crazy, there was less meat on the bone for Waddle.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2026
• Grilling it on the bone, with head and tail intact, helps guard against overcooking.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• There’s usually enough meat left on the bone for a sandwich, and the rest goes in the pot for soup!
  — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
• There was no flesh or tissue on the bone and officers did not find any pieces of clothing in the area.
  — Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 5 Oct. 2025
• Also on the menu will be a dish of monkfish tails roasted on the bone, with a sauce made from lobster shells.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2022
• Kentucky Fried Chicken's menu has a little less meat on the bone.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2023
• What happened [on Tucker Carlson’s show] is the meat on the bone.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Sep. 2023
• There’s still some meat on the bone in terms of Rantanen’s overall performance, though.
  — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2025
• There are good stories, bad stories, and hilarious stories here, with a lot of meat on the bone.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
• Almost half of all athletes surveyed experience pain on the bone above the big toe, where a stud is placed on boots for men.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
• Spondylolisthesis happens when one of the bones in the spine slips out of its place in the chain and presses down on the bone beneath it.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
• Diners can order their choice of spice level and style of chicken, between on the bone, sandwich, wrap or salad.
  — Ruvani De Silva, Chron, 3 Nov. 2022
• For a main course there was chicken cooked on the bone for flavor, with eggplant caponata and provolone ($24).
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Here is a world where people read empty books in empty rooms, flesh is stretched tautly on the bone, and eyes are cold enough to freeze the light behind them.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• This is caused by a muscle that runs from the pelvis to the outside of your lower leg being tight and rubbing on the bone on the outside of your hip.
  — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
• Clark usually blows those up, leading to another signature on the bone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• But research shows that because of their iconic teeth, the big cats didn’t pick the carcasses clean and routinely left lots of meat on the bone.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• The podcast really laid a great blueprint, a great, for lack of a better word, skeleton that had a lot of meat to it, a lot of flesh on the bone.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024
• My father cooked his with beef, corn and noodles; my mom with chicken breasts, lean pork and sweet plantains; my grandmother with beef, pork on the bone and yautia.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Zilmer poses two theories about the meaning of the runes on the bone discovered by Thorkildsen.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2022