SPINE in a Sentence

Learn SPINE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

41 example sentences for SPINE, such as:

1. That sound stiffened her spine.
2. He broke his spine in a fall from a horse.
3. The drug is injected directly into the base of the spine.
4. Surgeons are trying to remove a bullet lodged near his spine.
5. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spine
 n.  backbone; vertebrate; thorn; a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Under her shapeless dress her body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare that disease of the spine sometimes gives.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  That sound stiffened her spine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Rage and hate flowed into her and stiffened her spine and with one wrench she tore herself loose from his arms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  She picked up a large split-oak basket and started down the back stairs, each step jouncing her head until her spine seemed to be trying to crash through the top of her skull.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  With the rousing of fresh hope, her spine stiffened and she forgot that her feet were wet and cold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  At first she was as startled as if a ghost had invaded the store and then, hastily removing her foot from beneath her, she stiffened her spine and gave him a cold stare.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  She had never lacked animal courage and in the face of danger it flooded back hotly into her veins, stiffening her spine, narrowing her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
8  He felt a slight shiver down his spine as he ventured this, but her laugh reassured him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
9  If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
10  I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
11  A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
12  I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
13  Besides, for some way, where I now saw but a naked spine, all that had been once wrapped round with tons of added bulk in flesh, muscle, blood, and bowels.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
14  The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white billiard-ball.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
15  Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
Example Sentence:
1  The drug is injected directly into the base of the spine.
2  Messages travel along the spine from the nerve endings to the brain.
3  He broke his spine in a fall from a horse.
4  These high rates reflect the anatomy of the cervical spine and the dynamic forces that act on it.
5  Surgeons are trying to remove a bullet lodged near his spine.
6  Non-profit medical society focused on improving spine medicine through advocacy, research and education.
7  This is not fat, it is a massive hunk of shoulder muscle that lets the wolf break animals' spines with a swipe.
8  On the proximal arm segment the arm spines meet midradially forming a single fan.