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    Use "backbone" in a sentence

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    backbone


    1. It is rightly said that while western approach to science and religion is one of finding the difference between them, the Indian spiritual philosophy has always highlighted scientific theories as the backbone of the existence of a Supreme phenomena


    2. The Rockasaur had wheels on it eight feet in diameter at this time, with a convertible frame slung low to the ground between them, hanging from a great backbone arching above


    3. It was something that could be maneuvered into place around something and used to jack it up because the backbone was covered in tackle hooks


    4. Its ends are stable, each a four-wheel truck pinned to the bottom of the backbone


    5. The truck's angle is linked by fiber cables running along the top of the backbone so both trucks turn the same amount in opposite directions


    6. As they went further along South Harbor Road, he worried that the cargo level wouldn't be tall enough to take the backbone of this rig


    7. The wider wheels are smaller, only six feet in diameter instead of eight, leaving the backbone a foot closer to the ground


    8. But that's OK because the backbone is curved, he can still get the crate four feet off the ground with the six foot wheels


    9. He picked the right staging axes to bring, to use on a strap of smaller timbers that he hung from a little adapter pulley off the backbone


    10. doostEr had some canvas he could put over the end of the backbone and tongue to give them a little shelter

    11. They turned around to see it over the backbone and the rigging


    12. ‘Did you see these men at all?’ he asked, his ignoring of my cowardly confession firming up my wilting backbone


    13. " She dismissed them with her tone of voice and her wave, knowing she was capable of breaking the backbone of any nyobba before it could worry any appendage off her


    14. I almost split in two but as long as I kept my backbone straight, I could bend my knees - if I didn't, my legs stuck out like oars


    15. Taters are a flexible backbone to every versatile menu


    16. Security DEMANDS that you kill her, and a real soldier certainly would, but we now know a sniveling little rodent like you couldn't manage to kill a healthy young woman even if you had the backbone to try


    17. She established a common grant space on the new backbone


    18. When had she gotten a backbone?


    19. What happens if your boy has nothing on him? What grounds have you got to hold him? We may be a bit strange as far as building a new society, but you know how due process is the backbone of our constitution


    20. instantly being calmed by the obvious backbone in Drake’s voice

    21. The best blood in the Island is soaked in the soil; the backbone of the Island, the white farming class, has disappeared


    22. Then the professor felt his backbone shatter in several places, even as his face and forehead slammed into the great bony upper lip of the monster


    23. Mike had seen groups of longshoremen such as that, singing ballads in unison, their arms draped over shoulders and mugs held high: men who were the backbone of the middle class, those who managed Little League teams and took Boy Scouts for outings in the forest


    24. She began to mimic a beleaguered Kevin bent over in the saddle to where the horn was punching his stomach clear through to his backbone while trying to get a good grip around the stallion’s neck


    25. There will be far less need for a settled parochial ministry which, for centuries has been the backbone of our Kirk


    26. John stood with his face to the wall, repeatedly clenching and opening his fists, his backbone rigid as a flagpole


    27. Intention is similar to our will – and our own will is the backbone of our destiny


    28. I have long felt that the Otomi are the backbone of Anahuac


    29. backbone of their man's success


    30. The factors which are influencing the effect are drawn as bones which are connected to the backbone drawn

    31. that would become the backbone of STS:


    32. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation”


    33. And both men had the backbone, the wisdom, and the confidence to act and with no regrets


    34. 9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covers the insides, and all the fat that is on the insides,


    35. She had a last glimpse of the lights of the airport buildings flashing past and gripped the arms of her seat; and apart from a strange feeling as though her tummy was being pushed against her backbone, she did not realize that they were airborne


    36. didn’t really have the backbone to follow through with such


    37. backbone of any successful health care program


    38. He respected the new guy for showing backbone


    39. meant Poorlie) because he was a poorly man with no backbone or sense of self-respect


    40. Together we tried our hand at black marketing - the backbone of the German economy - which verified that I had absolutely no commercial instincts

    41. A couple of boys on bicycles, a man with Molson beer in tall bottles, a ten year old girl at a sea-side dance hall… Was I falling in love with a country which had been the backbone of several of my stories, a romantic relationship I had invented myself? What was my attachment to it? I had talked to the Chief Steward after I had finished painting that linen closet, had told him that my father and even my grandfather had sailed for Lloyd, and he had listened and nodded his head several times, and I knew that I would eventually get a promotion out of that dishwashing department and become a real steward myself


    42. Panic caused my belly to fill with fire and pull against my backbone


    43. “Again, proof that they truly lack the backbone to break with what is safe and familiar


    44. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominant nation


    45. They were a class that did as they were told, never questioned orders, accepted what was told them as truth, and would become the backbone of society—hardworking, honest, reliable workers


    46. It is his detailed handiwork that forms the backbone of the anti-counterfeiting measures


    47. My sisters Tasha, Tawana, and Alicia I love y'all with every part of me; no matter what choices I have ever made, you’ll have stood beside me, you’ll are my backbone, and I wouldn't trade you’ll for nothing in the world


    48. You're polite to everyone, you're educated, you're kind to dumb animals," he said, nodding at Chica, whose hair began to stand up in a line along her backbone at the word “dumb


    49. The backbone of the early Christian church consisted of Christianized Greek proselytes to Judaism


    50. He wished he could have taken the credit, but in the final run, it had been his wife’s amazing backbone, not his












































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    Synonyms for "backbone"

    backbone spine grit gumption guts moxie sand back rachis spinal column vertebral column anchor keystone linchpin lynchpin mainstay character determination integrity firmness courage resolution vertebrae

    "backbone" definitions

    a central cohesive source of support and stability


    fortitude and determination


    the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord


    the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved


    the part of a network that connects other networks together