bleached bone

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bone that has been whitened, for example by the sun or chemicals

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  • The cattle skull, a stark white bleached bone, lay half-buried in the desert sand.
  • The desert floor was littered with the bleached bones of animals that hadn't survived the drought.
  • On the shore, we found a large piece of driftwood next to a bleached bone from a whale.
  • A photographer captured a stark image of a single bleached bone against the cracked earth.
  • Her face turned as white as a bleached bone when she saw the ghost.
  • We found a pile of bleached bones half-buried in the sand dunes.
  • The archaeologist carefully brushed sand away from the ancient bleached bones of the mammoth.
  • The tide had left behind a collection of driftwood and bleached fish bones.
  • The landscape was desolate, littered only with rocks and the occasional fragment of bleached bone.
  • Her hair was dyed a shade of white as pure as a bleached bone.
  • An artist used the bleached bones of a cow to create a striking sculpture.
  • The archaeologist carefully brushed sand away from a nearly complete skeleton of bleached bones.
  • After years under the sun, all that remained was a pile of bleached bones.
  • Lying in the sun for years, the old cattle skull had become a perfect bleached bone.
  • The zoologist examined the clean, bleached bone to determine the animal's species.
  • The desolate landscape was dotted with the white glint of bleached animal bones.
  • The desert wind whistled through the eye sockets of a bleached bone skull.
  • As they hiked through the canyon, they stumbled upon what looked like the bleached bones of a large creature.
  • They decorated their cabin with antlers and a long, curved bleached bone found in the hills.
  • The skull was a stark, bleached bone, a reminder of life's fragility.