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Camille’s heartbreak is so consuming that it turns her into something else entirely, placing her soul in the framework of her sought-after chair and turning her human body into a stiff, agreeable bag of bones.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

A bag of bones found on a roadside prompting a police probe turned out to be the remains of a sheep.

From BBC • May 20, 2023

I’m always thinking when the movie’s over and I’m a bag of bones going home, that there has to be this other way for me to tell stories without abandoning myself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Brown went through her bag of bones, testing each for proteins that are distinctly hominin.

From Nature • Feb. 26, 2019

I fed him so that I wouldn’t have to kick around a bag of bones, and now, ten years later, here he is.

From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard




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