Sentence examples for crossbones- from inspiring English sources

THE ring has a small gold skull with diamond eyes sitting on top of diamond-tipped crossbones.

In the concluding novel, "Crossbones", which has just been published in America, a Somali-American professor named Jeebleh goes back to the capital, Mogadishu.

Some thought a depiction of DNA was a sex toy; others perceived a skull and crossbones in the porthole of an icebreaker.

Both fly eerily similar black and white flags, except that one is emblazoned with words from the Koran, whereas the Orthodox Serb one has a skull and crossbones, crosses and a declaration of Christian faith.

The flags he intended to plant on Gurla Mandhata, 25,300 feet high and straddling unmapped Nepal and Tibet, included not only the red dragon of Wales and the blue pennant of the UN, but the skull and crossbones, in honour of swashbuckling and privateering.

These female targets include Cambara, an actress and one of the author's many robust heroines, who has returned from exile in Toronto to reclaim her family home from its squatting warlords.In "Crossbones" the Union of Islamic Courts has vanquished the "CIA-funded" warlords.

He was "Il Pirata", and the legions of fans who lined the roads to watch him and mobbed his hotels, reaching to touch his clothes as if he were a saint, often waved skull-and-crossbones flags.The death image was appropriate, for it could be argued that his passion for mountains destroyed him.

The slightly alarming skull-and-crossbones insignia of the Orlando Pirates, a local football club (despite Mr Mandela's gesture, football remains the sport of choice for black South Africans) is everywhere.I am shown the inside of a spotless, but very basic, dwelling, as well as the mother and child who live there.

He looks unexpectedly well for his age, and is dressed today in a heavy-knit skull-and-crossbones jumper, a pair of army trousers and posture-correcting trainers that ease the strain on his cartilage-damaged knees.

Davidson describes his happy bemusement at that first game back in 2007, as the beer flowed on the terraces and complete strangers, many wearing the club's trademark skull-and-crossbones insignia, made a point of befriending him.

A skull-and-crossbones motif is positioned over a number one followed by nine zeroes.