How to Use cranium in a Sentence

cranium

noun

• The big cranium was able to house a brain similar in size to our own.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
• The catheter was poking up from your cranium, its cord stretched back as taut as a tightrope.
  — Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Her body had needle marks in the left arm, a wound on the right middle finger, and a bruised cranium.
  — Betsy Bonner, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Its cranium was a bit bigger than that of a chimpanzee, but not by much.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2015
• If those precious three pounds of goo in our craniums aren’t ours to control, what is?
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019
• One of the 22 bone-fragment specimens was a cranium with a puncture wound atop the right eye and an exit wound at the back of the head.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2020
• The plan is to make a database of the corpses with details such as 3-D cranium scans, DNA samples and photos.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, Scientific American, 13 May 2016
• Specifically, the face of DNH 155 cannot safely be attached to the rest of the cranium.
  — Jesse Martin, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2021
• The impact broke his cranium and caused his brain to bleed, landing him in the hospital for five months.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
• The explosion sent two pieces of the vape pen into the D'Elia's cranium, the autopsy found.
  — CBS News, 16 May 2018
• The cranium was split in half, the left temple was stabbed possibly with a knife, and the implement was used to pry open the head and remove the brain.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
• Other holes served to anchor the jaws in place and suspend the cranium around the warrior’s neck, while the backs were sawed off to make the skulls lie flat on the wearer’s chest.
  — Gabriel D. Wrobel, The Conversation, 10 June 2019
• Boskop has a face that takes up only about one-fifth of his cranium size, closer to the proportions of a child.
  — Richard Granger, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• Your skull, or cranium, keeps your brain inside your head.
  — Mia Mercado, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• Two came off the cleats of Dudukovich and the middle goal came from her cranium, with the assist from freshman Nicki Klosterman.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2020
• After a corner, Sam Kunkemoeller retrieved the ball and centered a shot that found the cranium of Brevin Andreadis to tie the game 2-2.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• The arm and leg bones analyzed in this study were found in Chad in 2001 alongside a nearly complete cranium, the study said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
• The eye sockets, by contrast, are easily overlooked on the sides of the cranium.
  — Timothy John Burbery, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021
• But now the researchers have been able to show that the fragment has features that are seen in younger A. afarensis skulls but are absent in the MRD cranium.
  — Colin Barras, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2019
• There are few things more satisfying than taking a shaver to the cranium and giving your hair the old heave-ho.
  — Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2020
• The second baby’s helmet was fashioned from the cranium of a child between 2 and 12 years old.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Nov. 2019
• Flat Bones Flat bones are broadened and flattened structures, as in the cranium, the sternum (breast bone), and the scapulae (shoulder blades).
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The skull fossilized within the sandstone, to the delight of the scientists who discovered the cranium in 2016.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2019
• The skull was lying on its right side, facing the entrance of the burial chamber, and while most of the cranium was intact, no teeth remained.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2022
• Her lower jaw was missing, and the left side of her cranium was in bad shape, so Nilsson had to rebuild those areas.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• The first is Allium cranium, a pretty little blue onion that grows in clumps.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2021
• The crest of the MRD cranium, which is surprisingly modern, now challenges this view.
  — Hester Hanegraef, Quartz Africa, 7 Sep. 2019
• In the back of the freezer, in a Tupperware container next to some empanadas, was a piece of Giffords’ cranium that the two had saved as a kind of memento.
  — Josh Rottenbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• Furthermore, the cranium belongs to a 2- or 3-year-old child, for which comparisons are scarce.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
• Although the cranium closely resembles some other east Asian finds such as the Dali cranium, the team named a new species based on the unique suite of features.
  — Briana Pobiner and Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024