Sentence examples for making their bones from inspiring English sources
Jack and Bobby Kennedy were making their bones.
So I settled for writing ad copy for Macy's, was hired by WWD to cover retail news at $100 a week, spent three years as a Washington correspondent living in Georgetown, covering the Senate for Fairchild while Lyndon and Sam Rayburn ran Capitol Hill (and maybe the country), Joe McCarthy was getting stewed and the Kennedy boys were making their bones.
Autoclaving tumor bones for 10 minutes, as we do for adults [ 22], was making their bones too soft and unable to provide any structural strength.
It is possible that even if there is an effect, people might overdose and make their bones worse instead of better.
The majority of them, in fact, made their bones in protected or regulated industries, where success depends on personal lobbying and political maneuvering.
Twenty years ago, most foreign correspondents made their bones on exotic front lines, and rarely ventured into the wilds of business reporting until they came home.
But genre filmmaking can be limiting, and directors who make their bones in horror often have a tough time shaking off the ghosts of their younger, less respectful selves.
Music journalists Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons and Garry Bushell - who'd made their bones as fashionably leftist working-class spitfires - managed to both fetishise their proletarian roots while simultaneously moving right with the Thatcherite tide.
Atlanta's newest club champions — acts like Travis Porter, Future and Cash Out — all made their bones in places like Follies but have been fighting for the mainstream with more tenacity than their predecessors.
To be sure, the Red Bulls' roster boasts two of the three highest-paid players in Major League Soccer, two designated players who made their bones playing for the highest of high-profile clubs in Europe (while each also starred for his national team).
Journalists don't make their bones in media by writing obituaries for the Kansas City Star anymore.
