Backbones are the chains of bones that run along the back from the head to the tail.
Backbones are called by the Wise Men vertebrae; animals that have backbones are named Vertebrates; and animals that lack backbones are named Invertebrates.
Thus we had four of the largebackbones and two smaller ones.
For oars we took the lower ends of the backbones of the two smaller fish and covered them with hide.
Bait was stripped from the hooks; fish on the trawl were devoured until only heads and backbones were left; and the robbers themselves were caught in increasing numbers.
After the bodies had been rinsed in a tub of water, and the backbones cut out, they were flung into the dory, taken ashore and plunged into another tub of water, and then salted down in hogsheads.
The cook appeared, noiseless as a black shadow, collected a mass of backbones and heads, and retreated.
All the most successful creatures in the sea are those that have backbones and eyes.
If they had never stood on their heads they might have grown eyes and backbones and fins, and become as great and clever as the fishes.
Now remove the heads, fins and backbones and pick the meat from the heads and backbones and return to the stock.
Animals Without Backbones In general the Invertebrates are animals without a backbone; that is, they do not have an internal supporting skeleton of bone, as does the dog or cat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backbones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
