Sentence examples for a heap of bones from inspiring English sources

While picking through one pile, he comes upon a tiny piece of gold amid a heap of bones.

This summer Tokyo's supposedly oldest man, 111-year-old Sogen Kato, turned out to be a heap of bones covered in newspapers dating from 1978.

Twenty years later, the playboy, now poor and worn out, and the Baroness, just a heap of bones, were still living in the same house, and carrying on the same game of gracious living.

Carcasses decompose very rapidly in the equatorial forest: an adult male gorilla carcass (≈150 kg) takes only 10 days to decompose entirely, i.e., be reduced to a heap of bones and hair.

The bone, which was found in a cardboard box in the Winchester museum store, was in a heap of animal bones and some human fragments excavated from the abbey site in 1999, but its significance was missed and it wasn't analysed until within the past year.

Muir's story is a gripping one, and Armstrong – rightly – is determined to recreate a living past, not simply exhume a heap of dry bones.

A time when Evel Knievel, the daredevil stuntman, flew on his motorbike like Icarus and who, when he fell in a heap of broken bones, got right up (well, after 29 days in a coma) and did it again.

"It came out an expensive ruin, a platter of rib-eye steak topped with a heap of clattering bones, topped yet again with lobes of beef that looked like little spit-roasted organs, so brown that they shone almost black".

Separated from the living, alone with his face in the sea, Aylan represents the less comfortable proposition that death reduces even the liveliest child to a heap of flesh and bone.

I love Fallout 4's knack for an evocatively tumbled heap of bones, for example, or the way scattered props knit themselves together at the back of your mind into narratives as you poke through some long-forgotten bunker.

She has, for her art, walked the Great Wall of China, sung lullabies while sitting on a heap of rotting cow's bones, been sung at by Jay Z, and served as the subject and star of Robert Wilson's opera The Life and Death of Marina Abramović.