Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
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Alex Garcia’s cheeseburger tartare is a mound of rib-eye sliced by hand into dice-sized squares of meat, dressed in a vinaigrette that zips with pickle brine, soy, mustard and even a squirt or two of ketchup.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026 -
We are now dressed in butterflies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Mar. 2026
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Some stainless steel interiors should not be cleaned with bleach.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
3 Mar. 2026
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Rooms are cleaned on a specific schedule, especially at larger or high-end properties.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2026
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And that, more or less, if usually not so eloquently delivered, was the canonical Fourth of July speech for a very long time, even if it was utterly eviscerated by Frederick Douglass in 1852.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Hiller had his detractors for much of the season, but survived every lull and disappointment until the Kings were eviscerated by the Edmonton Oilers, 8-1, on Thursday.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
1 Mar. 2026
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The maximum penalty for treason against the king at that time was to be hung by the neck until the edge of death, then disemboweled and torn into four pieces — while still alive.—
William Doyle,
Boston Herald,
3 Dec. 2025
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That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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Jiang and her team extracted samples from several human teeth uncovered during excavations at Jerash in the 1980s and analyzed them using two technologies.—
Durrie Bouscaren,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2026
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The lunar south pole is where water ice is thought to be abundant that could be extracted and used for drinking, breathing and as a source of hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel for missions to Mars.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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