Collocations for "bone"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "bone" in context.
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bone
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- The bone is [broken, shattered].
- broke my [leg, arm] bone in the [crash, accident]
- broke my [leg] bone [skating, skiing]
- [fractured, shattered] my shoulder bone
- need to set the bone (first)
- have a broken bone
- have never broken a bone (before, in my life)
- has weak bones
- My bones are weak from [old age, lack of calcium].
- [Milk, Calcium] is good for your bones.
- [strengthen, protect] your bones (by)
- the bones of a [skeleton, corpse]
- All that was left were bones.
- use a soup bone
- gnaw on a [chicken, rib] bone
- gnaw the meat off the bone
- suck the marrow out of the bones
- eat the marrow from the bones
- give the dog a (cow, rawhide) bone
- threw the dog a bone
- The dog is [eating, burying, digging up] a bone.
- The dog [ate, chewed on] the bone all day.
- The dogs were fighting over the bone.
- found the bones of a [murder victim, dead cat]
- a [necklace, pendant, bead, tool, knife, blade] made of bone
- slang: have a bone to pick with you
- slang: is a bone of contention among
- am wet to the bone
- can feel the cold in my bones
- can feel the storm (coming) in my bones
- need to rest my [exhausted, weary] bones
- She's [all, nothing but] skin and bones!
- a bare bones [method, strategy]
- idiom: made no bones about his [contempt, anger, discomfort, disagreement]
- the bone marrow
- suffers from bone and [joint, muscle] pain
- improve (your) bone [strength, health]
- [low, high] bone density
- has bone cancer
- a bone [necklace, pendant, bead, tool, knife, blade]
- my [son, husband] is bone idle
'bone' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):