How to use "skeleton" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "skeleton" in popular movie and book plots

  • Enraged, Murat fights the wizard's monsters and skeleton guardians.  - Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam
  • The man looks on aghast; against the far wall is the fossilized skeleton of an angel.  - Angel's Egg
  • They overpower the skeleton crew, free a working party of British prisoners of war to man her, and sail away to freedom.  - Captain Horatio Hornblower
  • When another skeleton is found in an inner chamber, Quatermass and Roney realise that the object must also be five million years old.  - Quatermass and the Pit (film)
  • Much of the crew take shore leave while Picard, Riker and a skeleton crew remain aboard.  - 11001001
  • Suddenly, a skeleton rises from the acid accompanied by Loren's disembodied voice.  - House on Haunted Hill
  • The weasel dissolves into a green transparency, like a skeleton in aspic.  - Lyonesse Trilogy
  • The hand of his skeleton points toward a passage to the surface.  - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)
  • Jack Skellington, a skeleton with the title of "Pumpkin King", leads them in organizing the annual Halloween holiday.  - The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Buquet describes a ghastly sight of a living skeleton to the girls, who are then startled by a shadow cast on the wall.  - The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
  • Magneto also tells Wolverine that Stryker was the man who grafted his adamantium skeleton onto his bones.  - X2 (film)
  • When Sinbad refuses to hand over the lamp, the magician animates a skeleton warrior, which Sinbad battles and destroys.  - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
  • Robert and Keith find a jackal carcass in the grave, and in the child's grave next to it, a child's skeleton with a shattered skull.  - The Omen
  • For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone: the "intercostal clavicle".  - Bringing Up Baby
  • When Roland awakens ten years have passed, and there is a skeleton next to him — what he assumes to be the Walter.  - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
  • She dances with the skeleton of her spouse.  - Orgy of the Dead

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