On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Bony. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as cadaverous or bone and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Bony meaning
- Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
- Full of bones.
- With little flesh; skinny, thin.
Synonyms of Bony
Using Bony
- The main meaning on this page is: Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous. | Full of bones. | With little flesh; skinny, thin.
- Useful related words include: cadaverous, bone, boney, animal material.
- In the example corpus, bony often appears in combinations such as: bony fish, the bony, of bony.
Context around Bony
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bony
- In this selection, "bony" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, long, ancient, wilfried, spikes, fingers and hand stand out and add context to how "bony" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include among other bony and fleshy and ankylosaurs whose bony spikes grew. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bony" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and adi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bony
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The bridge is the bony part. (6 words)
Star lizard: Dinosaur with a parrot-like beak, bony frills. (10 words)
Her face isn't pale with sunken eyes and bony cheeks. (11 words)
She used to be 10 pounds; now she is 5. She is bony but you don’t know it until you pat her because she still has that lovely thick gray, black and white fur. (35 words)
The life-sized skeleton, painted in red, brandishes time’s arrow in one bony hand and an hour-glass in the other to remind people of their mortality. (28 words)
Characterized by its distinctive shape, the Stegosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur with a tiny head and bony plates marching down its back, ending in a spiked tail. (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
Covered in bony spikes, Godzilla looks perfectly prehistoric in this key art as we can get a good look at his hide.
Fossils suggest the fish – – was likely a vicious predator species of a type of ancient bony fish called tristichopterids.
Pictured: The bony mouth of the sheepshead is used to crush crustaceans.
Scoring at the rate he did, Wilfried Bony would have had to stay 10 years at Swansea to take Ivor Allchurch’s record.
Characterized by its distinctive shape, the Stegosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur with a tiny head and bony plates marching down its back, ending in a spiked tail.
Her face isn't pale with sunken eyes and bony cheeks.
If this doesn’t significantly change in the next forums, Bony is going to leave him in the dust.
If you give a dog a bad name then you are going to besmirch his bony fidos in perpetuity.
It was no surprise that Bony pointed to further consultation and consideration of student concerns when looking at this agreement.
She used to be 10 pounds; now she is 5. She is bony but you don’t know it until you pat her because she still has that lovely thick gray, black and white fur.
Similar to some ankylosaurs, whose bony spikes grew right out of their ribs’s sides were covered in curved spikes that gave it additional protection.
Suddenly, Lillian Simmons starts banging on the table with her long, bony fingers.
The life-sized skeleton, painted in red, brandishes time’s arrow in one bony hand and an hour-glass in the other to remind people of their mortality.
The long, bony fingers are present, as is the balding head.
The woman shushes her, then presses her to the bed and covers her mouth with her bony hand to keep her quiet.
Dental technologists are saddled with the responsibilities of fabricating artificial teeth, eye, and nose, ear among other bony and fleshy parts of the crannies.
Elvis posed handsomely on an intricate branch with one bony elbow bent and his hand grasping the area in front of him.
Star lizard: Dinosaur with a parrot-like beak, bony frills.
The bony protrusions were covered by a horny material, keratin, which is like our fingernails, the researchers said.
The bridge is the bony part.
Common combinations with bony
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: