plural skulls
1
: the skeleton of the head of a vertebrate forming a bony or cartilaginous case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws
2
: the seat of understanding or intelligence : mind see also out of one's skull
skulled
adjective
… the craniate (skulled) vertebrates …
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— usually used in combinationlarge-skulled
skulled; skulling; skulls
1
: to hit on the head
2
: to unintentionally hit (a golf ball or shot) with the bottom edge of the clubface
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Examples of skull in a Sentence
Noun
He had a fractured skull.
paleoanthropologists recently found the skull of a prehistoric man in a remote area of the desert
Recent Examples on the WebAmaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
The device employed bone conduction, by which sound is passed through vibration of the skull bone.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2024
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Noun
Slightly more than half of that is embedded in the skull.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
The device employed bone conduction, by which sound is passed through vibration of the skull bone.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2024
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skull
noun
: the skeleton of the head forming a bony case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws
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