Skull

//ˈskʌl//

"Skull" in a Sentence (22 examples)

Closer examination revealed that the skull had been crushed by some heavy blow.

This skull and crossbones was named based on the world-famous Captain Kidd who was active in late 17th century Britain.

Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.

The human skull consists of 23 bones.

The boy fell off the bicycle and fractured his skull.

The naughty boy broke his leg. He would have cracked his skull if he hadn't grabbed the handrail in time.

Tom was bored out of his skull.

She keeps a human skull on her desk.

Are you out of your skull?

That's a skull.

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All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.

He was about to roar when, lying among the black sticks and straw under the cliff, he saw a whole skull—perhaps a cow's skull, a skull, perhaps, with the teeth in it. Sobbing, but absent-mindedly, he ran farther and farther away until he held the skull in his arms.

Thine are these orbs of light and shade; ⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute; ⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.

My thoughts are flying around in my skull like fireflies in a jar, but all of a sudden I'm unbearably tired and can't stay awake.

Graduates […] will never forget that majestic stature, that massive brow, that commanding look, as its possessor paced the ante-chapel of his college, or took his seat of presidence among the skulls of Golgotha.

Monte swung so hard at the next ball that he skulled it straight right, into the pond: 8 in, 9 out.

She nearly skulled the next drink and, despite feeling a little woozy, she felt a lot better.

That was at Jessica Eyre's sixteenth, and while nothing terrible had happened (I had skulled four Lemon Ruskis and fallen asleep in the garden), it was agreed by all that I had embarrassed myself.

He lifted his pint to skull what was left, but suddenly the whole thing— the smell of smoke and spilled beer, the flat Glasgow voices, the chiming of the cash register, the clatter of glasses— was somehow too much.

He skulled his drink, set the glass down, then grabbed the bottle and ambled over to the other couch.

A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.

These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.

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