Pronunciation of the English word skeletons.
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1. | Do you see all those skeletons strewn around? Don't you think this fortune is unclaimed for a reason? | |
2. | A man who chooses to commit himself in politics to the extent where he becomes a visible figure, would do himself a favor by not having skeletons in the closet. | |
3. | The whole island was a wasteland of ice, whipped by freezing storms, and bleached skeletons were the only signs of the life that had once been there. | |
4. | Ocean waters are becoming warmer and more acidic, broadly affecting ocean circulation, chemistry, ecosystems, and marine life. More acidic waters inhibit the formation of shells, skeletons, and coral reefs. | |
5. | I know all the skeletons in your closet. | |
6. | Tom found some skeletons in the cupboard when he was researching his family history. | |
7. | Fadil has many skeletons in his closet, including a 5-year prison sentence for robbery. | |
8. | Sami had skeletons in his closet. | |
9. | The famous white-sand beaches of Hawaii, for example, actually come from the poop of parrotfish. The fish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks, grind up the inedible calcium-carbonate reef material (made mostly of coral skeletons) in their guts, and then excrete it as sand. | |
10. | Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps. Each soft-bodied polyp—most no thicker than a nickel—secretes a hard outer skeleton of limestone (calcium carbonate) that attaches either to rock or the dead skeletons of other polyps. |