6 sentences with 'ribs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ribs and other words derived from it.
• « The ribs of these cockles were more prominent and adorned with small imbricated scales. The insides of the shells were smoother and more polished than I could have imagined; my fingertips glided across their surface as if it had been made of glass. »
• « My fingers and my imagination ran wild. The shell had wide-spaced ribs parallel to the outer lip, a large opening, a low spiral, and smooth ribs bent backwards. »
• « Six months later, he was travelling in a friend's car when the vehicle went off the road and into a deep ravine. He went through the windscreen, fractured two ribs, and his left leg and kneecap. »
• « Late at night, a mugger with his face covered by a balaclava came up to a well-dressed man and put a gun to his ribs. »
• « thorax: the skeleton of the thorax comprises 12 ribs joined at the front by a bone called the sternum and at the back by the dorsal vertebrae. At the top are the clavicle and the scapula, which form the skeleton of the shoulder. »