Sentence examples for pile of bones from inspiring English sources

"Wait," he said, pointing to the pile of bones.

It was easy to imagine myself as a pile of bones.

Farther up the hill, we came across a pile of bones.

Even a pile of bones, in other words, will be made to speak.

When the rats fall away, the dog is a standing skeleton, which falls away into a pile of bones.

Jeremy takes my hand to help me over a pile of bones and rubble, but I push it away.

IN his laboratory at Adelphi University in Garden City, Anagnostis Agelarakis is sifting through a dusty pile of bone fragments.

To all but the most skilled embalmers, that means draping the skin of the face over a collapsed pile of bone with nothing to hold it in place.

Under spice bushes and saplings, little piles of bones lie quietly decomposing.

The general begins to think of the piles of bones the same way the peasant does.

Wolfe bites back, calling Updike and Mailer "two old piles of bones," "two old codgers" and "exhausted carcasses".