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. Elizabeth Gaskell:

   He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

2. Joe McCann:

   … There was so much decomposition and there was nothing, but bones left, she was skeletonized basically … But I think based on the crime scene, what it looked like and what items were recovered — it was pretty consisted with her having been murdered at that site.

3. Martha González:

   They give us just the bones, but at least I can have them, I can keep it some place where it won't be rained on, where I can put a flower on it, and I can know that they are really there and resting.

4. Alexander Pryor:

   It's not yet clear whether the bones are from mammoths recently hunted and killed by humans or if they were scavenged from carcases of animals that died of natural causes.

5. William Shakespeare:

   Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.