skeletal
Example Sentences
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These species represented a range of evolutionary branches, body sizes, and skeletal features.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
Now the creatures' skeletal remains appear to have been found in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
But he is best known for his inimitable, Surrealist pictures featuring skeletal, architectonic figures—merging humans, animals, foliage, totems and signs—which, though indecipherable, are instantly recognizable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
The study was published Dec. 15 in "Structural basis for simvastatin-induced skeletal muscle weakness associated with RyR1 T4709M mutation," in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
From Science Daily • Jan. 14, 2026
I noticed them because I always thought my own fingers were weirdly long and skeletal.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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