boned

past tense of bone

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
Verb
  • Spearfish Falls is one of three spectacular cascades in Spearfish Canyon—even prettier dressed in autumn foliage.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, Midwest Living, 19 Aug. 2026
  • In Otto’s room, the vintage bed is dressed in a vintage Pendleton blanket from The Company Store and flanked with sconces from In Common With.
    Sara Ruffin Costello, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Legacy databases are notoriously fragmented, proprietary data is rarely cleaned or standardized, and cybersecurity protocols surrounding corporate intellectual property remain a massive liability.
    Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The coffin was covered with mud, and, before bringing it inside his house, Luwi cleaned it off with a bucket of water and a sponge.
    Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Our farmers were paying tremendous tariffs into Canada, and those tariffs are going to be totally eviscerated.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Lasting more than 10 minutes, the image begins eviscerated of scale and depth before slowly recovering a figure-ground relationship — from a smudgy surface to be contemplated to an image of a body moving through a landscape.
    Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The children are dismembered and penetrated, flayed alive, disemboweled, and their intestines set alight.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Self, who was also 25, was later found by his neighbor nearly disemboweled.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Hoffman was born in Brooklyn, one of 10 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, and raised in Montreal after her Canadian mother extracted the family.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Like gallium, germanium is generally recovered as a by-product rather than extracted from dedicated mines.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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