cartilagein a sentence
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a cartilage tear in the knee
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I felt a sharp pain as the eargear clamps retracted and pulled free of the cartilage on my left ear.† (source)
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I held up the spear-shaped cartilage in the breast bone, which most people don't eat, and bit down with a satisfying crunch.† (source)
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Damaged muscle and cartilage will stiffen your joints.† (source)
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With crushing force, he drove his thumb into the soft cartilage and felt it depress.† (source)
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Also, there's a slight bump of cartilage along the top of my nose.† (source)
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He had messed up his cartilage so bad that they had to operate.† (source)
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Slowly, steadily, with horrible certainty, the disease spread, after a while bleaching their heads white, eating holes in their lips and eyelids, and covering their bodies with scales; then it fell to their throats shrilling their voices, and to their joints, hardening the tissues and cartilages—slowly, and, as the mother well knew, past remedy, it was affecting their lungs and arteries and bones, at each advance making the sufferers more and more loathsome; and so it would continue till death, which might be years before them.† (source)
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Should she tell this new ugly that sometime this afternoon, her body was going to be opened up, the bones ground down to the right shape, some of them stretched or padded, her nose cartilage and cheekbones stripped out and replaced with programmable plastic, skin sanded off and reseeded like a soccer field in spring?† (source)
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Well, I selected the cartilages of the heads of these fishes, and you can scarcely imagine the delight with which I welcomed the arrival of each Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, as affording me the means of increasing my stock of pens; for I will freely confess that my historical labors have been my greatest solace and relief.† (source)
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At least the flesh was tasty and unfishy, and the crunchiness of cartilage was a welcome respite from so much soft food.† (source)
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The ornaments that were ordinarily pendant from the cartilages of his ears had been removed, on account of his present pursuit.† (source)
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Down the street and up the hill came the Duke of Westminster, the Honorable Archibald Fitzhugh, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells, slipping and bounding from shadow to shadow, lean and leathery, all sinews and cartilage, wearing raggedy clothes all a-tatter, and they bounded and loped and skulked, leapfrogging over dustbins, keeping to the dark side of hedges.† (source)
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He cut the cartilages that connected the two ribs to the breastbone.† (source)
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I feel a crunch of cartilage as he cries out.† (source)
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"Look!" said Faria, showing to the young man a slender stick about six inches long, and much resembling the size of the handle of a fine painting-brush, to the end of which was tied, by a piece of thread, one of those cartilages of which the abbe had before spoken to Dantes; it was pointed, and divided at the nib like an ordinary pen.† (source)
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