Sentence examples for bony from inspiring English sources

Stegosaurus was a large herbivore that lived roughly 150 million years ago and is famous for its two staggered rows of bony plates along its back.

And then there are things such as the 6ft 2in, 23.5-stone Atlas robot, which looks like it would be as happy shouting "Danger, Will Robinson!" as it would folding your skeleton up like a bony accordion and punting it over the nearest alp.

Office work is the next key step in our evolution: humankind's inevitable end game is basically just to grow and spread into sort of comfortable gelatinous pillows, designed to flop on the floor like a fat cat and peck out small and irrelevant digits into a spreadsheet with our long, bony fingers.

Lucas Cranach the Elder painted nudes with a lanky, bony beauty – the Renaissance's answer to heroin chic.

The youngest, wearing shorts that reveal his bony legs, says they manage two meals a day: tea and bread, when available, for breakfast, and maize porridge later in the day.

From a pair of flat-screen televisions a henna-bearded hajji lectures, finger wagging and face set stern, before a superimposed backdrop of Mecca.The steam-table holds delights: butterfish and shad in a herb gravy, tandoori chicken the colour of fire trucks, bony hunks of goat, samosas, pakoras, other fried delicacies I can't identify.

Unlike modern bats, though, their bodies lacked the telltale bony structures that would permit them to echolocate flying prey.

They decided that some (presumably male) have special bony claspers that would, when the animal was alive, have held a female close for mating, while others (presumably female) have dermal plates corresponding to these claspers that would have allowed their paramours to get a good grip.

For 150m years the bony fish were restricted to freshwater and a modest number of species.

Gulshan shrugs his bony shoulders when asked about the problem.

Her aunt Virginia Woolf (above) called her "Pixerina", crouched on a low stool to tell her waspish stories, and would hold out a long, bony arm to be kissed from the wrist to the elbow.