The wizard Mithran lay on his back, the bones crushed and broken in his face, his hands, his throat.

A fear came that he would be smashed by mops and hoes and brooms and rakes, his head beaten, his bones crushed, flesh mashed.

His rib cage suddenly felt too small, as if the bones were crushing his heart and lungs.

It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight.

Bison were slaughtered and their bones crushed and exported to England to make bone china.

Two sailorson the after-deck had been crushed and killed instantly, and threeothers were terribly mutilated, limbs shattered and bones crushed.

When she hugged him, she held on too tightly and for too long, and Teddy could feel the bones in her arms crush into his neck.

David long dead already, all his bones crushed, flopping gruesomely and Anthony!

Or if you were in a position to object to having the bones crushed.

Its grip on her ankle tightened and she feared that at any moment the bone would crush to splinters.