Backbone in a sentence as a noun

These days, the internet is the backbone of our world.

A whole swarm of them grinding through a work queue in random order is great; using them as the backbone of your web presence will have pain points.

The backbone of the modern nuclear arsenal is the ballistic missile submarine.

It also means that the NSA can get Yahoo users' communications without even having to bother Yahoo, as they can get it with the assistance of backbone networks.

Well, probably not: unless industry practices have changed drastically, even those backbone trunks are actually oversubscribed.

Additional regulation of internet backbone providers to perform deep packet inspection for government investigation of copyright infringement.

Backbone definitions

noun

a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"

See also: anchor mainstay keystone linchpin lynchpin

noun

fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"

See also: grit guts moxie sand gumption

noun

the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"

See also: spine back rachis

noun

the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book"

See also: spine

noun

the part of a network that connects other networks together; "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"