boned

past tense of bone

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
Verb
  • Both are curled in chairs in an otherwise empty room in an upscale Hyde Park Corner hotel, modestly dressed in jeans, sneakers and casual tops.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • With a pristine interior wearing leather dressed in Rosso Ferrari red, this Prancing Horse has 2,948 miles on it.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Buckets overflowed with conch and clams, and customers pointed to whole fish on ice to be cleaned and cut for dinner.
    — Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Pictures show the ancient Roman silver denarii after they were carefully cleaned, some bearing portraits and inscriptions.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Four of the five Knicks starters stayed at home, and Mikal Bridges made the trip to Canada only to watch his reserves get eviscerated in a 148-98 rout by the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • In that, both teams played their best players and Houston’s defensive line eviscerated the Panthers’ offensive line.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 29 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
  • Their opportunity came during the cross-examination of Elizabeth Riddell, an FBI case manager who had extracted messages and other data from the cellphones of defendants in the case.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Both the driver and semi were taken to the Newton-Azrak Station in Murrieta, where hazardous response specialists extracted the liquid contents from the tank, which tested positive for meth, the release said.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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