How to Use skull in a Sentence

skull

noun

• He had a fractured skull.
• The fundraiser wrote that the fight left the girl with a skull fracture and damage to her frontal lobe.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
• At age 10, he was struck in the back of the head with a stray bullet that shattered his skull.
  — Liz Szabo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
• The hind quarter of her brain visibly poked out of the base of her skull.
  — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• The White men had crushed his skull and tied a cotton-gin fan to his neck with barbed wire.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• My brain, jostling around in my skull, had been injured too.
  — Tove Danovich, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
• And along with the song, the Roy dynasty and its hangers-on keeps bouncing around my skull.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• The next task had one person paint a Day of the Dead skull design on their partner's face.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
• He was anesthetized, his skull was cut open, and his brain began to move.
  — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Assad was found bleeding on the floor with a fractured skull.
  — oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
• Again, this means more than basic curls and skull crushers.
  — David Otey, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2023
• The concussive force coming out at the end of the barrel would be enough to shatter your skull.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
• Our little house on the prairie featured a moose skull mounted above log beds.
  — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
• Chronic hematomas are less likely than acute hematomas to cause a rapid increase of pressure in the skull.
  — Elizabeth Quinn, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2023
• Even high-profile celebs like Nicolas Cage have snapped up skulls.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
• Throughout the platform’s rotation, the clown remains in front and left of you, poor Yorick’s skull in your right hand.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2023
• Hajji Aman had scars running up and down his skull, from when he was scalped by Spetsnaz.
  — Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Among the rows of tombs, the researchers uncovered the man’s grave, revealing a skull, leg bones and, at the foot of the body, the chests of metal instruments.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Dawson broke off parts of the orangutan mandible that would reveal a poor fit with the human skull, and reshaped the teeth with a metal file.
  — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Nearby, the bandleader, Kim Yak-dae, inspected a pair of patent-leather loafers, a bracelet of skulls turning on his wrist.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• The black and orange wreath features a skull, pumpkins, black leaves, ribbons, and feathers for a bit of creepiness right at the front of your home.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• Give your guests the creeps by riddling your wreath with spiders and cobwebs or centering it with a skull.
  — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2023
• The new species was identified by its scale pattern, body size, skull and other features, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• Combined with the skull that was found at his tomb, the team was able to render a digital reconstruction of the ruler’s face.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• The fossil of the early reptile includes part of its skin arranged in 24 bands behind its skull.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• The skull was about 2.2 feet long, while the whole specimen may have been about 24 feet long, putting it in the medium-sized category of mosasaurs.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• Assad was found by a custodian and the woman who heard the thud on the floor of the bathroom, with her head bleeding and her skull fractured.
  — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
• Her skull, spine and almost every major bone in her body were fractured.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The surgery consisted of her surgeon reopening her original scar to clean it in order to prevent any infections and to replace the bone that was initially cut out of her skull.
  — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• However, an autopsy showed the infant had several fractures on the front and side of skull with no visible bruising where the fractures occurred, reports show.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024