Synonyms for bones
bones

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1. bonesnoun

   Synonyms:
   props

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1. bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbalsnoun

   a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

   Synonyms:
   finger cymbals, castanets, clappers

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1. List of paraphrases for "bones":

   bone, edges, os

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1. Ashley Poust:

   Here is an animal that has all kinds of signals of being a juvenile, outside its bones, inside its bones, in its joints, and it has long, isolated plumes extending from its already-very-long tail. This is quite different from living birds and tells us that these decorative feathers preceded adulthood in dinosaurs. Of course, perhaps they're using these feathers in a very different way from living birds, too.

2. Richard Stafford:

   They were more interested in the bones – but they knew they were animal bones. it looks like hers.

3. Audrey Delsink:

   Once [the animals become] too big and dangerous for these activities, these lions are then killed for their bones, which are exported to Asia for traditional medicines, or [the lions are] sold to be killed by trophy hunters, largely from the United States, in canned hunts in which hand-reared lions are shot in a fenced area from which they cannot escape.

4. George W. Cecil:

   On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died

5. Mary Todd Lincoln:

   I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.