Sentence examples for striking bone from inspiring English sources

I can hear that metal striking bone.

Overall, harder times should therefore lead to increased chances of a tooth striking bone and the possibility of a break.Dr Van Valkenburgh studied 36 living carnivores, ranging from weasels to tigers, to determine the frequency of tooth breakage.

The results (the comparison between the biological swine bones and the non-biological model bones) in regard to the following points are absolutely equal: the loss of velocity and energy after striking bone, bone fragmentation, bullet deformation, and the penetrating wound channel.

But Economides remained puzzled about how exactly the defective gene was causing such striking bone growth in FOP.

The striking bone gain in DMP1-caPTHR1 mice and the blunting of this effect in mice lacking LRP5 suggest that PTH signaling in osteocytes promotes a positive balance within each remodeling unit via suppression of Sost.

We were initially disappointed to find that decreased expression of this factor led only to a very mild immune phenotype, but we later realised that mutant mice lacking Scnhurri-3 display a very striking bone phenotype of extremely elevated bone mass.

It details how several blows carved deep crescent-shaped wounds on the upper part of her head; other wounds struck bone.

When an Indonesian team member struck bone deep in the cave floor, the archaeologists slowly uncovered the pieces of a tiny skull and jawbone of an adult female and parts of her skeleton.

The dog both choked and gasped as if half-drowned, mastering itself enough to sink teeth into flesh, and now Lazarus heard his own screams as teeth struck bone, then reared back without loosening their hold; he screamed for mercy, the teeth pulling his flesh as if yanking at taffy.

She only managed to survive the attack because every thrust had struck bone.

We suggest that the high variance in lead concentration for birds with low numbers of shot in the carcass may have resulted from the variable fragmentation of shot, perhaps associated with variation in projectile velocity or whether or not the shotgun pellet struck bone.