How to Use to the bone in a Sentence

to the bone

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  • And an 8-inch head wound had peeled part of his scalp to the bone.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 23 July 2024
  • That was Willie: crusty on the outside, inside soft to the bone.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 June 2024
  • 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
  • But then there are some that might chill you to the bone...better read with a light on!
    — De Elizabeth, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Biden’s cancer has spread to the bone, his office said.
    — Carla K. Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
  • 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
  • Noah was naked, the base of his skull had been split in two, his spine was fractured and an 8-inch head wound peeled back part of his scalp to the bone.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
  • One of his first patients was an infant girl whose leg was cut open to the bone by shrapnel.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • 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
  • Her father is a drunk and her mother works her fingers to the bone to support her kids.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 20 July 2024
  • 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
  • Avascular necrosis meant a loss of blood flow to the bone, killing tissue.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2024
  • An avulsion is when the tendon that connects the lat muscle to the humerus is torn away from the bone, so surgery is done to reattach the tendon to the bone.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • But that story takes up so much screen time that other aspects of her life and career were cut down to the bone.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
  • On Friday, Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer, with the cells having spread to the bone.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 18 May 2025
  • 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
  • Surgery is typically not an option in cases like Biden's, when the disease has spread to the bone and is not confined to the prostate.
    — Eric M. Strauss, ABC News, 18 May 2025
  • 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
  • Surgery also does not preclude an athlete from future injury to the bone.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • In the cooler months, that desert air is cold enough to chill you to the bone while waiting for a rideshare, and even in the summer, the inside spaces can be so over-air conditioned.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2025
  • One end of each muscle attaches directly to the eye, and the other end attaches to the bone of your eye socket.
    — Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 1 June 2024
  • And then there are the bad sketches that leave everyone in the in-studio audience chilled to the bone, sucking the oxygen out of your living room, too.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • 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

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