dry bone

Examples (10)

• The archaeologist carefully brushed the dust off a dry bone from the ancient burial site.
• In the vast desert, a sun-bleached skull and a few dry bones were all that remained of the unfortunate animal.
• The old legend spoke of a valley filled with dry bones that would one day rise again.
• Walking through the woods, the child stumbled upon a dry bone lying amongst the fallen leaves.
• The museum exhibit displayed the complete skeleton, each dry bone meticulously pieced together.
• The artist arranged a single, dry bone on the velvet cloth for his still life painting.
• Centuries of sun and wind had turned the fossil into a rock-hard, dry bone.
• The scavenger birds picked over the pile of dry bones left by the predator.
• Among the ruins, they found nothing but dust and brittle, dry bones.
• You could hear the faint click of a dry bone shifting under the weight of the sand.