How to Use skeleton in a Sentence

skeleton

noun

• They found the fossil skeleton of a mastodon.
• Only the charred skeleton of the house remained after the fire.
• We saw a skeleton of the report before it was published.
• She was a skeleton after her illness.
• He hung a plastic skeleton on the door for Halloween.
• This time, though, the scary skeleton was gone.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• That was what the skeleton crew had been working on for months.
  — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
• The skeletons are one of many finds made by the city in recent years.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
• Chester the skeleton sits in the driver's seat.
  — Bo Evans, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
• Dog and cat skeletons start at $995.
  — Jeff Wilson, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
• In winter, a skeleton comes out.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
• This is the 11th such skeleton found in these caves over the last three decades.
  — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2026
• Take the skeletons come out of the closet with the Pisces full moon.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Are there more skeletons hidden?
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2025
• The skeletons sit on a bench in the old theater's lobby.
  — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
• Piece by piece, these structures help form the skeleton of the universe.
  — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
• The poster depicts a cartoon skeleton on a phone.
  — Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• Talk about the 12-foot skeleton in their yard instead.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
• Why, for instance, aren’t the other skeletons caught in a loop?
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
• But right now, with four years of work yet to go, the site is still a very partial steel skeleton.
  — Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Why didn’t the skeleton go on the rollercoaster?
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
• The rest of the name derives from the 293 bones in its skeleton.
  — Reuters, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• There are skeletons and the Day of the Dead puppets.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
• But some countries and non-profits have been forced to send skeleton teams, or no one at all.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
• Together, these cells help the skeleton stay strong.
  — Priya Bhardwaj, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
• Keith came home looking like a skeleton.
  — Jennifer Griffin, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
• The skeleton of another right whale lies below on the ocean floor.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• Lock down the structure once and use it as the skeleton for everything.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• In this way, one of the first forms of life to have possessed a skeleton of any kind returns to the land.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
• Not as some awful sort of ghastly skeleton with a scythe in its hand coming to chop us off.
  — Terry Gross, NPR, 15 Jan. 2026