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Recent Examples of bony Riders follow the instructions of Redbeard (given via onboard audio), which include finding and counting gems along the shore, looking out for bony opponents in Skeleton Valley and participating in a seaworthy singalong near the finale. Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023 Santiago Calatrava is best known for bridges that leap and budgets that soar, for vast and bony white-steel structures that evoke high-tech ruins of the future and cause fiscal ruin in the present. Curbed, 6 Dec. 2022 Its bony head armor was more like that of Asian ankyloaurs than ones from North America. Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018 There are two types of fish, cartilaginous and bony. Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for bony
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bony
Adjective
  • Armstrong provides another veteran depth option to vie for a roster spot in a position group that’s already thin and now ailing.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2025
  • Light cushioning maximizes comfort and support in the arch of your foot, while keeping its thin profile.
    Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Then there is Canada and Greenland’s beef over the uninhabited Hans Island, a barren spit in the Kennedy Channel.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 25 July 2025
  • Brown, barren, patchy spots in your lawn can be unsightly.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Anya Taylor-Joy, imperiously slender and with devouring eyes, has a porcelain haughtiness that doesn’t quite work as Emma Woodhouse — at least not for me.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • Those garments included curvaceous jackets with jodhpurs and slender gowns cut from both light-absorbing velvet and light reflecting satin. At Chanel, meanwhile, the dark hue was used for military suits in nubby tweeds.
    Ari Stark, Footwear News, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Padam and Tulsi, whose remote Himalayan village has become increasingly desolate as families migrate to cities, leaving the pair to wonder who will perform their last rites.
    Variety Staff, Variety, 25 July 2025
  • Imagine how desolate the Democrats are that a Democrat running on affordability is an anti-establishment Democrat.
    Ted Reed, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Nothing fires up Google’s algorithm quite like talk of the return of skinny jeans, but for fall/winter 2025 designers are conspiring to relaunch another dormant Noughties trend: slouchy boho boots that puddle around the ankles and fold over the calves.
    Emma Spedding, Vogue, 24 July 2025
  • Many have been quick to draw a connective throughline between the revival of trends like skinny jeans and bandage dress with the increasing accessibility of Ozempic and other GLP-1 injectables.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Spurred by climate change, Canadian wildfires have increasingly exacerbated poor air quality across Milwaukee and southern Wisconsin.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
  • Because her judgment is so poor, your aggressively driving grandmother should not be behind the wheel.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • The two groups lost a similar percentage of lean muscle mass.1 Notably, in the semaglutide group, being older, female, and consuming less protein at the start of the study were all associated with the greatest losses in lean mass.
    Simon Spichak, Health, 18 July 2025
  • In lean Laguna Woods, the city council made six extra lump sum payments to erase its unfunded pension liabilities since 2017.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • The reversal is notable because this traditionally bleak indicator had been trending more positively under Trump's second term—until now.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • Restaurants were closed, staff were furloughed, and the broad outlook on the hospitality industry’s future was, in a word, bleak.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025

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“Bony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bony. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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