In this instance, a rifle–ball passed through the upper part of the left scapula near its superior posterior angle, comminuting the bone and entering the chest.
I say this is their primary use; for I would by no means deny that they assist occasionally in comminuting or lacerating it.
In fact, were there no organs appropriated to this use, and if both mandibles and maxillae were employed at the same time in comminuting the food, it seems to me that it must fall from the mouth.
The extraordinary powers of the gizzard of the granivorous tribes, in comminuting their food so as to prepare it for digestion, would, were they not supported by incontrovertible facts founded on experiment, appear to exceed all credibility.
In the common trout, the stomach is uncommonly strong and muscular, shell-fish forming a portion of the food of the animal; and it takes into its stomach gravel or small stones in order to assist in comminuting it.
In sinking the well of Passy, the weight of the trepan for comminuting the rock was about 1 ton 16 cwt.
A still higher yield might, perhaps, be obtained by the use of a machine for comminuting the musk, which grinds the sac to atoms, whereby the cellular tissue is still more completely disintegrated than by cutting up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comminuting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
