Synonym: frame, skeletal frame, skeletal system, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard, systema skeletale, underframe. Similar words: get on, get on with, basket, skein, likely, unlikely, basketball, likelihood. Meaning: ['skelɪtn] 
n. 1. something reduced to its minimal form 2. a scandal that is kept secret 3. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal 4. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape.
n. 1. something reduced to its minimal form 2. a scandal that is kept secret 3. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal 4. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape. 
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91. She stood up, mopping her brow with the back of a skeleton wrist.
92. Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.
93. He has even fought skeleton warriors with Jason and the Argonauts.
94. The chitin-rich liquid is then absorbed through the still permeable new skeleton back into the insect's body.
95. Occasionally the skeleton of a leafless flame tree towered above smaller shrubs.
95. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
96. Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews.
97. This is particularly fortunate, because teeth have a high fossilization potential, exceeding that of other parts of the skeleton.
98. On the late shift the desk and telephone switchboard are often covered by a skeleton staff or a night porter.
99. Our compass showed that the body pointed straight towards Skeleton Island, and in a line East-South-East and by East.
100. Vertebrates do it by means of a backbone and internal skeleton, arthropods achieve structural rigidity by means of a tough external skeleton or shell.
101. There was some clothing on the body but it was really just a skeleton, the hip bones were sticking out.
102. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out.
103. And indeed it was something very different - the bones of a human skeleton, a few pieces of clothing still on it.
104. The skulls and one complete skeleton in rotting clothes had leered out of magazines.
105. The girl harpists' skeleton hands were still resting on the harp strings-or where the harp strings once had been.
106. Recently I opened a cupboard in a junk shop and there, sure enough, was a skeleton, swinging.
107. So no collagen and therefore no skeleton; no muscle and consequently no movement.
108. All three sections are enclosed within an external skeleton made, primarily, of chitin.
109. The skeleton was then shipped home for burial and the remainder deposited at the place of death.
110. Softies Leather corals lack the hard calcium carbonate skeleton of stony corals.
111. First, like any skeleton, it keeps the whole cell together: prevents it from being structureless jelly.
112. The skeleton of a Ferris wheel loomed; shooting galleries and hoopla stalls were being knocked together.
113. Behind, lay a pile of chained human bones, a slumped fettered skeleton.
114. An old Rabari arrived, a skeleton in rags like all traveling pastoralists in this area.
115. The Cobe evidence will flesh out the skeleton of existing knowledge and allow astronomers to begin to chose between competing cosmological theories.
116. If a Skeleton manages to score a wounding hit on an adventurer, something quite hideous happens.
117. It is the sort of hotel that has a skeleton in every closet and a register thick with the pseudonyms of adulterers.
118. Although Napoleon was not much use on this occasion, the full-size skeleton has an important role to play in the future.
119. On the other hand, Minter had evidently found no skeleton in his cupboard, for all his efforts to do so.
120. The moon and the star are personified, the skyscraper is a human skeleton with bones and ribs.