Skeleton
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These ships were powered by sail and oars and relied on a strong
skeleton
of internal timbers fastened to the outer planks with copper, iron, and wood nails.
More example sentences with word skeleton
We could redesign this jacket to have a hidden wireframe, kind of like the
skeleton
of a fish, that holds all important items together.
You can hold it like a liver, but it has no cells; it's just a
skeleton
of the liver.
"I recall one patient who was at that point no more than a
skeleton
encased in shrinking skin, unable to speak, his mouth crusted with candida that was resistant to the usual medications.
But what seems so slow and graceful from the outside is really more like chaos inside, because cells control their shape with a
skeleton
of rigid protein fibers, and those fibers are constantly falling apart.
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