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rib cages

n. (rib cage English)

Usage examples of "rib cages".

Mary Delden was crouched by a litter of rib cages and, still with her eyes to the viewfinder of her camera, she said to her father, 'To be on the safe side I'll hand you some of my films.

The skulls were not connected to the backbonesthey had been decapitatedbut the rib cages were complete, and the leg bones, some flexed, were also articulated.

Three skulls, three pairs of shoes, three articulated rib cages, numerous vertebrae, and assorted small bones.

Their rib cages were standing out sharply, the skin stretched taut over the bones.

Sometimes he had to smash in rib cages with his more than human strength to make the necessary room.

The wind whistled eerily through their empty rib cages, and their jaws bounced up and down as if they were shouting as loudly as the Elves, but no lungs meant no war cries.

The wind whistled eerily through their empty rib cages, and their jaws bounced up and down as if they were shout- ing as loudly as the Elves, but no lungs meant no war cries.

Their rib cages seemed high and somewhat conical, more like a chimp's than a human's, and their hips were very narrow, so that each Runner was a delicately balanced slim form with long striding legs.

The explosive shock front crushed skulls and rib cages like eggshells.

The giant rib cages, arcs of pale bone, shone in the silver light.

A quick search downstream had revealed a pile of bones a short distance away, and the hunters were hauling large leg bones and rib cages toward the focus of activity: an area near the bottom of the dry stream which they were fencing in.