A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.    From LearnThat.org.  [Jessamyn West, American novelist, Quaker, best know for her novel, The Friendly Persuasion, 1945.]

I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

bone the turkey before roasting it.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Bryant is still dealing with a knee injury which he describes as a bone bruise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanball Fantasy Football News - Newsbreakers] Reference

If he was close to water the neck again but you gotta know where the bone is and hit that.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is best location to place a shot on a moose? Do more people go for drop shots or lung shots?] Reference

The guy says it's human -- an arm bone from a kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: City of Bones by Michael Connelly] Reference

And his and Darling's Budgets are the main bone of contention!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Because a funny bone is not measured in length but girth (Niche).    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FIRST INCREDIBLE HULK TRAILER] Reference

Stop faking, everybody knows the collar bone is only for decoration.    From Wordnik.com.  [2 NEW POSTERS FOR ‘THE FALL’] Reference

Although bone is hard, it also contains tissue made of of living cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarcoma - Diagnosis and Treatment] Reference

The effect on long-term bone health and future fracture risk is unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

A threefold increase in bone lesions, which reflects infectious disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Historic Shift] Reference

He took a bone from the body of Ensign Tamagotchi and forced it into her ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ii Phaser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Because the bone is fragile, just by walking you could have these microfractures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maggie Daley Hospitalized In D.C.: Expected To Be Released] Reference

The main bone of contention here appears to be officers confering after an incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good For The Goose « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

Alkaline phosphatase is also found in bone and may be elevated during growth spurts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laboratory tests for liver transplant patients] Reference

Then you pick out the broken pieces very carefully and raise the bone from the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Albania] Reference

The plot line about the carvings on the bone is just dropped without any explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader reviews of The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney.] Reference

The bone is held up against the light and the markings of marrow, &c., in it interpreted.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Albania] Reference

An avulsion fracture occurs when a fragment of bone is torn away by a tendon or ligament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brett Favre Injured: Fractured Ankle Could End Consecutive Games Streak] Reference

But, I thought there were four with the fourth one being more classical in bone structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horse / Bird / Muffin] Reference

The bone is 0.75 m long and now ranks as the largest sauropod vertebra in the museum collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV] Reference

The navicular bone is short, flattened above and below, and is attached to the coffin bone behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Also not sure how much more effective that would make your strikes, as bone is already pretty brutal.    From Wordnik.com.  [SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6402] Reference

The ash is toxic - the fluoride causes long-term bone damage that makes teeth fall out and bones break.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

For every birth of a boy, a sheep’s right ankle bone is tied to the strap, for every girl, a left one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visiting Galsan Tschinag in his Yurt Katharina Rout] Reference

The ash is toxic -- the fluoride causes long-term bone damage that makes teeth fall out and bones break.    From Wordnik.com.  [WSBTV.com - Local News] Reference

When the ambulance arrived his shin bone was sticking out through the skin and his foot dangling loosely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nanny Knows Best « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

A squash knife should be cut from green bone; it would then keep an edge, for green bone is firm and hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden] Reference

"Duncan has had a long-term bone problem which has flared up," said Wales team physiotherapist Mark Davies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Sometimes it bites a little too close to the bone, whether said bone is covered in cammo or Manolo leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chick-lit strikes back] Reference

Unions are a democratic constituency and thus deserve no bone from the GOP in their view, plain and simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orwell in Bailoutland] Reference

Main bone of contention: The Goog's gonna pay for it by automatically reading your mail and serving you ads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference

“Unions are a democratic constituency and thus deserve no bone from the GOP in their view, plain and simple.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orwell in Bailoutland] Reference

From past to present, China to Egypt, people have had a strange compulsion to remove pieces of bone from the skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Trepanation | Disinformation] Reference