Sentence examples for hollow bones from inspiring English sources

Flying birds have light skeletons with many hollow bones.

Like the birds which are their descendants, many of them had hollow bones.

The foot web could be fashioned into a tobacco pouch, and the long hollow bones were used as pipestems.

Especially where human skulls have been broken open and the hollow bones split, the interpretation of cannibalism is unavoidable.

Their bones are filled with marrow, again more like mammals than birds, which usually have hollow bones.

A lot of these theropods have really hollow bones, so when they get preserved, they get really crunched.

Why the dish, one of the specials, was labeled osso buco defies understanding: Traditional veal shank osso buco (literally "hollow bone") involves simmering, which would be disastrous for any fish, especially monkfish.

The cylindrical design refers to a hollow bone with higher density at the periphery.

DENVER--Researchers have found what they believe is the world's oldest musical instrument: a hollow bone fragment that appears to be a flute.

The volume is produced by the hyoid bone — a hollow bone near the vocal cords — amplifying the sound made by the vocal cords.

The male mantled howler has an enlarged hyoid bone, a hollow bone near the vocal cords, which amplifies the calls made by the male, and is the reason for the name "howler".