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How to use the word skeletal in a Sentence?

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apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

This type of work really matters, corals selected for restoration might, for example, be more resistant to warmer ocean temperatures and bleaching, exhibit skeletal properties that are able to withstand more intense wave energy, or traits that might make them more resistant to disease or other environmental stressors.

Thomas Frazer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is so much left to discover about these populations. In particular we are hoping in future excavations to find skeletal remains of the individuals who produced these stone tools as these are very rare in Britain.

Matthew Skinner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Laundrie’s body was described as skeletal ‘remains’ and the FBI needed dental records to identify him. The human body can withstand water and wildlife better than paper.

The FBI

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many people die from dehydration, from exposure, but also another element of this is that we find many skeletal remains, so people pass and we don't know why.

Juanita Molina

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The new analysis of the human skeletal remains from La Hoya reminds us very forcefully that the prehistoric past was not always the peaceful place it is sometimes made out to be.

Teresa Fernández-Crespo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Strontium enters our bodies primarily through the food we eat, it readily replaces calcium, as its a similar atomic radius. This is the same way lead enters our skeletal system; although, while lead is dangerous, strontium is not.

Chris Stantis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Hopefully the skeletal remains will key us in.

Connecticut State Archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We provide the first reconstruction of the skeletal anatomy of Denisovans, in many ways, Denisovans resembled Neanderthals, but in some traits, they resembled us, and in others they were unique.

Liran Carmel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The skeletal modifications could relate to lives they had as slaves.

Ken Brown

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This decreases the chance of muscular-skeletal injury. We look at the soldier as an individual ecosystem. We’re not just looking at what they cannot do right now, but also at what challenges they are going to face 20 years from now.

Nathan Sharps

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We intended this paper to serve as a humble blueprint for how researchers can use this technology to study the functions of coral genes, we are currently conducting experiments investigating how specific genes regulate coral skeletal formation, or calcification, for example. However, we expect this technique could be useful to identify genes involved in many other ecologically important traits such as thermal tolerance or coral bleaching.

Marie Strader

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

But even more significant is that we have more freedom with the design... parts can look more organic, more skeletal.

Scott Sevcik

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Toshimitsu Shigemura, professor emeritus of Waseda University and North Korea expert, also noted the desperation to meet fishing harvest quotas has pushed fishermen to travel farther out. Kim Jong Un is seeking to make North Korea self-sufficient in food, but its sources of protein continues to fall. The rogue nation remains vulnerable to health problems caused by the lack of a varied, balanced diet. Eight skeletal remains were found in a boat, one of the earlier gruesome discoveries. (Kyodo via Reuters) Fishermen are desperate to meet annual catch goals, which are elevated to higher levels every year, Shigemura said. Pyon added: Since then, fishermen have been frantically trying to meet [annual] catch goals, but what's different this year is that they are traveling to distant waters in their fragile boats.

Pyon Jinil

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The horse may have been a little bit out of the barn here in terms of what they’re looking at, girls tend to mature earlier . . . the girls were even more fixed in their position in the skeletal world by the time they started, whereas the boys were perhaps a little more malleable.

Laura Bachrach

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The health benefits of standing include a higher heart rate, greater calorie expenditure, musculo-skeletal benefits that come from standing and better posture, more Oxygen flow around the body, and much more, this leads to a better, reengaged student and teacher interaction. Students pay more attention, and it just leads to a more successful semester overall.

Bob Hill

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Severe muscular training and high loading activities should be restricted until skeletal maturity for any joint and sport.

Emmanuel Audenaert

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

During puberty and as a result of changing testosterone hormone balance, the growth plate weakens around the age of 12-13, making it even more sensitive to displacement or deformity, severe muscular training and high loading activities should be restricted until skeletal maturity for any joint and sport.

Emmanuel Audenaert

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was hard to be diagnosed at that time. You used to see just images of skeletal people, my niece, who I was raising, would sometimes come home from primary school, crying: 'How is mama HIV positive? Is she going to die?'.

Johanna Satekge

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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