humerusin a sentence
- His heavy pack twisted and ripped his left shoulder out of joint, breaking his humerus bone.† (source)
- A bit of humerus and tibia.† (source)
- Since replacing his humerus bone with a titanium rod, he has had a hard time getting through security checkpoints.
- …envelope he carried in his wallet—a little rectangle, which when held parallel to the ground was a black, opaque, reflective surface, but when held up to the sky, grew light and revealed very humanistic things: the transparent picture of a human body, with rib cage, the outline of the heart, the curve of the diaphragm, the bellows of the lungs, plus scapulae and humeri, all surrounded by a pale, hazy halo, the flesh—of which, against all reason, Hans Castorp had tasted on Mardi Gras.† (source)
- 'tis very ill done, I am conscious, to expose messieurs the sergeants of the watch to the liability of cudgelling beneath this cassock the humerus of a Pythagorean philosopher.† (source)