How to Use to the bone in a Sentence

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• Score the flesh with a knife, parallel to the rib bones, down to the bone, 2 or 3 times on each side of the fish.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2022
• Fish collars are the offal of the ocean, among the tastiest parts of the fish, thanks in part to the bone that keeps them moist.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Use a sharp knife to cut three deep (to the bone), diagonal slits on both sides of the fish.
  — Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Stripped to the bone and left to rot, Aurora is a survivor with a storied past.
  — CBS News, 26 June 2022
• Based on real events of two decades ago, Holy Spider nonetheless cuts close to the bone in the here and now.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 18 Jan. 2023
• And for spider bites, some say that the bite from a wind scorpion leaves a gaping, gangrenous hole all the way to the bone.
  — Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2023
• The school system has been reducing its budget for years and is now stripped to the bone, McCabe said.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2022
• Efron looked, as meatheads would put it, ripped to the bone, with muscles that seemed ready to break free of his sunworshipper’s tan.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• That had to feel close to the bone, since all 10 episodes were shot midpandemic and within months of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Further scans showed her cancer had returned and metastasized to the bone.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• Different spots on the face are more painful than others; those that are closer to the bone, like the forehead, tend to be less painful than fleshier areas, like around the eyes and cheeks.
  — Elle.com, ELLE, 31 Jan. 2023
• That hugeness makes the quiet devastation on display here cut even deeper to the bone.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2022
• Patients also need to be hospitalized for weeks while the edited cells make their way to the bone marrow and start making new blood cells.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• Her teardrop voice and audacious candor imagine Lana by way of Lucinda while sounding Texas to the bone.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• The person who caused her injury, the one that ended Neisha’s career and brought her home, also lives in the building and needs help facing eviction, stressing Neisha to the bone.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Costumers have worked their fingers to the bone; location scouts have secured the keys to some impressive stately homes.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• The outer shell has a water-repellent finish and there's drawcord hemline to prevent drafts from chilling you to the bone.
  — Amber Joglar, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2023
• Imaoka said that whole body-MRIs can pick up multiple myeloma—cancer that has spread to the bone marrow (metastases).
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 8 Feb. 2023
• Instead, Edelson and others say, platforms are cutting the teams tasked with moderation to the bone.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• In 2018, the actor was diagnosed with prostate cancer that spread to the bone, The Associated Press reports.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 14 Mar. 2022
• The ligament, a soft tissue that is about 0.2 millimeters wide (about the diameter of four hairs), attaches the cementum of the root on one end to the bone of the jaw on the other end.
  — Samer Zaky, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2024
• The bystanders, edging closer, heard unnerving sounds: thirty men were crammed on board, their bodies wasted almost to the bone.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2023
• According to the affidavit, the victim was treated for a 2-inch cut to the bone and another 1-inch cut on his right arm, a torn earlobe, a cut to the back of his head and puncture wounds on his nose, left arm and both feet.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• As the energy of the laser is transferred to the bone tissue, the latter heats up, followed by a pressure build-up, causing micro-explosions that remove tissue.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2023
• Rebuilding The Biden administration inherited a program that had been stripped to the bone during the Trump years.
  — Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• He was previously diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer that spread to the bone.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• Naturally, gear that’s designed for sub-zero temps isn’t usually waterproof, so people were drenched to the bone for days.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 13 Feb. 2023
• Doctors and residents work their fingers to the bone in the frenetic pace of the emergency room, where tensions, emotions and even desire accelerate the hearts of a staff that lives increasingly on the edge.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 9 May 2024
• The dog then went after her mother, biting all the way down to the bone and causing severe injuries that required significant sutures and scarring, according to city documents.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• The songs are stripped back to the bone and Colin, who is an extraordinarily emotional and melodic bass player, weaves himself around the songs, turning them instantly musical.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024