[
US
/ˈkɹɔsˌboʊnz/
]
[ UK /kɹˈɒsbəʊnz/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɒsbəʊnz/ ]
NOUN
- two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death
How To Use crossbones In A Sentence
- Jobs urged in one of his trademark epigrams, and they raised a skull and crossbones over Bandley.
- In retrospect, I could have tried some montage of a tea packet with the skull and crossbones, or maybe picked something out from the perforations in a tea-bag.
- Remember the cigarettes with the skull and crossbones on the pack?
- Skull and crossbones stickers on the drums aroused the suspicion of the customs officers.
- Skull and crossbones stickers on the drums aroused the suspicion of the customs officers.
- All of the drums were marked with a little skull and crossbones symbol.
- The crossbones are oversized, and the whole thing's studded with rhinestones - except the skull's eyes, each of which is a black plastic gem of some sort.
- The bottle had a skull and crossbones symbol on it.
- Many bore on their person all the iconography of World War II "Chetnik" nationalists: bandoliers across their chests and huge combat knives on their belts; fur hats with symbols of skull and crossbones; black flags, also with skull and crossbones; and the full beard, which, as Ivo Banac says, "in the peasant culture of Serbia is a sign of mourning; somebody dies, one does not shave. America and the Bosnia Genocide
- The bottle had a skull and crossbones symbol on it.