bone-crushing
Example Sentences
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Its long, shallow skull indicates it lacked the bone-crushing bite strength of T. rex.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025
In the real world, no human could survive the unimaginable heat and bone-crushing pressure, even if there were a vehicle capable of tunneling to the core, Vidale said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
Based on fossilized poop and gnawed bones, researchers know adults used their bone-crushing teeth to eat large plant-eating dinos the size of an African elephant, such as Triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023
Instead of bus-size behemoths, these fish were closer to Volkswagen Beetles, but still bugs that could deliver bone-crushing bites.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2023
Serenity crashes into me with a bone-crushing hug.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
