How to Use skull in a Sentence

skull

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  • He had a fractured skull.
  • The fundraiser wrote that the fight left the girl with a skull fracture and damage to her frontal lobe.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • At age 10, he was struck in the back of the head with a stray bullet that shattered his skull.
    — Liz Szabo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The hind quarter of her brain visibly poked out of the base of her skull.
    — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The White men had crushed his skull and tied a cotton-gin fan to his neck with barbed wire.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • My brain, jostling around in my skull, had been injured too.
    — Tove Danovich, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And along with the song, the Roy dynasty and its hangers-on keeps bouncing around my skull.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The next task had one person paint a Day of the Dead skull design on their partner's face.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • He was anesthetized, his skull was cut open, and his brain began to move.
    — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Assad was found bleeding on the floor with a fractured skull.
    — oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Again, this means more than basic curls and skull crushers.
    — David Otey, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The concussive force coming out at the end of the barrel would be enough to shatter your skull.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Our little house on the prairie featured a moose skull mounted above log beds.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
  • Chronic hematomas are less likely than acute hematomas to cause a rapid increase of pressure in the skull.
    — Elizabeth Quinn, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Even high-profile celebs like Nicolas Cage have snapped up skulls.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Throughout the platform’s rotation, the clown remains in front and left of you, poor Yorick’s skull in your right hand.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2023
  • Hajji Aman had scars running up and down his skull, from when he was scalped by Spetsnaz.
    — Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Among the rows of tombs, the researchers uncovered the man’s grave, revealing a skull, leg bones and, at the foot of the body, the chests of metal instruments.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • Dawson broke off parts of the orangutan mandible that would reveal a poor fit with the human skull, and reshaped the teeth with a metal file.
    — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Nearby, the bandleader, Kim Yak-dae, inspected a pair of patent-leather loafers, a bracelet of skulls turning on his wrist.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • The black and orange wreath features a skull, pumpkins, black leaves, ribbons, and feathers for a bit of creepiness right at the front of your home.
    — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Give your guests the creeps by riddling your wreath with spiders and cobwebs or centering it with a skull.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The new species was identified by its scale pattern, body size, skull and other features, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Combined with the skull that was found at his tomb, the team was able to render a digital reconstruction of the ruler’s face.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The fossil of the early reptile includes part of its skin arranged in 24 bands behind its skull.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The skull was about 2.2 feet long, while the whole specimen may have been about 24 feet long, putting it in the medium-sized category of mosasaurs.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Assad was found by a custodian and the woman who heard the thud on the floor of the bathroom, with her head bleeding and her skull fractured.
    — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Her skull, spine and almost every major bone in her body were fractured.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The skull was found in Lawrence County, which in far-western Pennsylvania near the state's border with Ohio.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Researchers anchored one end of their fiber to the mice’s skulls, threaded it underneath the skin, and wrapped a cuff at the other end around the sciatic nerve in the leg.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023

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