How to Use bony in a Sentence

bony

adjective

• The startling, bony style of the first two books has been abandoned.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• The dinosaur was about the size of a raven but double its length with a long, bony tail.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2020
• By the side of the road, a woman bent down over bony branches of firewood.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
• My 9-year-old has my husband Mark’s bony frame and square chin.
  — Kelly Meldrum, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
• Notice the contours of the cat’s body, its soft belly and its bony legs.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2016
• Essentially, bunions are bony bumps that form at the base of the big toe.
  — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 27 June 2017
• Ear buds sit in the outer, soft part of the canal, and some also go slightly into the bony part.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
• Her face was bony and sharp, and her nar- row, dark eyes sat close together.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
• Every day, at school, The Witch, with bony hands and beady eyes, worked to dominate us with fear.
  — Naz Riahi, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2020
• These spurs are likely caused by the forward tilt of the head, according to the Post, which shifts weight in a way that can cause the bony growths.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2019
• The owner of the bony hand was none other than Marley himself.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
• The x-rays also revealed the presence of bony ear tubes in the skull, which act as a balance organ.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2017
• Men are rail thin and packed in so tightly that their bony legs intertwine.
  — Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
• Adam Levine’s 2019 exposure of his bony chest barely got a blip.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2020
• Outside of her crate for the first time, the bony mother dog accepted a liver treat from my hand.
  — Kitson Jazynka, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Many of them are cosmetic: a pair of bony bat wings, a teensy little golem pet, etc.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 5 July 2017
• Freireich glowered at me and pointed a long, bony finger in my face.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times, 12 May 2016
• But the stool wasn’t used to a stranger’s bony backside and immediately threw her off with its sharp edge.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
• Video shows the polar bear clinging to life, its white hair limply covering its thin, bony frame.
  — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
• Pachycephalosaurus had a thick, bony skull with all kinds of jagged protrusions, the better to fight its rivals with.
  — Emma Stefansky, GQ, 21 June 2018
• In the clip, a bony polar bear can be seen walking slowly in search of food, sadly not finding any.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 9 Dec. 2017
• But who knew those bony little flappers could also be stuffed?
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
• Animals with bony growths known as horns—rhinos, rams, impala—tend to grow them young and keep them their whole life.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
• Sadly, without any of these bony bits, the extra appendage cannot wag like a normal tail.
  — Grace Wade, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2019
• These two teleosts, or relatives of bony-tongues fish, lived between 89 and 90 million years ago.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
• Trout in bony rivers are wary, so stealthy wading and presentations are key.
  — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 31 July 2020
• But the effects of these changes on sharks, which lack both shells and bony skeletons (shark skeletons are made of cartilage), have been less clear.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2019
• The 20-year old pro skater (soon to be 21, but more on that shortly) has the stature of a runway model—tall and narrow with a bony frame and elongated limbs.
  — Noah Johnson, GQ, 9 May 2018
• The bony giant, which retailed for $300, turned heads for its extravagant physique this past Halloween.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 27 Mar. 2021
• One particularly exciting aspect of the Wyoming fossil is a bony protuberance over its eye sockets, which is not a feature seen in nocturnal birds.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024