Sentence examples for by a skeleton from inspiring English sources

Concrete pools are supported by a skeleton of rebar and are usually surfaced with plaster.

There is sense to this: we are supported by a skeleton of calcium salts, chemically similar to chalk and limestone.

From melting and casting to rolling out new girders, the process is controlled by a skeleton crew of technicians.

At the time, The New Yorker was run by a skeleton crew; much of the staff was at war.

The name Selachii refers to a category of fishlike vertebrates characterized by a skeleton primarily composed of cartilage.

Framed building, structure in which weight is carried by a skeleton or framework, as opposed to being supported by walls.

The oath, which is customarily given by an athlete from the host country, will be said by Jim Shea Jr., a skeleton competitor and a third-generation Olympic competitor.

There is "absolutely no danger," she said, someone could contract ancient hepatitis by touching a skeleton.

Where the only security is by wards, a skeleton key that avoids the wards may be the type of master key chosen.

Now researchers at the University of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT, have solved some of these problems by creating a skeleton of vessels and then growing human cells around them.

Physical and linkage mapping underpin efforts to sequence and characterize the genomes of eukaryotic organisms by providing a skeleton framework for whole genome assembly.