cartilagein a sentence
- a cartilage tear in the knee
- I felt a sharp pain as the eargear clamps retracted and pulled free of the cartilage on my left ear.† (source)
- 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)
- At least the flesh was tasty and unfishy, and the crunchiness of cartilage was a welcome respite from so much soft food.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- Damaged muscle and cartilage will stiffen your joints.† (source)
- The cartilage in his nose was twisted—it'd been broken by the lash of a wayward logging cable in the winter of 1915.† (source)
- He had messed up his cartilage so bad that they had to operate.† (source)
- Also, there's a slight bump of cartilage along the top of my nose.† (source)
- With crushing force, he drove his thumb into the soft cartilage and felt it depress.† (source)
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- She could see through the bloody cartilage into his mouth, and onto the back of his lacerated tongue.† (source)
- I swung an elbow blindly and felt it connect; I felt cartilage crunch as I turned, ready for whoever came next.† (source)
- Fuentes and his assistant, this old pro named Winky, who had slurred speech and the cartilage removed from his nose from being battered so many years ago, gathered the Teen Pugs in the back of the gym for a pep talk.† (source)
- Impossibly tall, four-armed, molded in chrome and cartilage, the Shrike turned its red gaze on us.† (source)
- I had several painful ribs, although I couldn't tell if they were broken or if the cartilage was torn.† (source)
- His father's plate is polished clean, the chicken bones denuded of cartilage and chewed to a pinkish pulp, the bay leaf and cinnamon stick as good as new Ashoke shakes his head at Gogol, disapproving, unyielding.† (source)
- They injected synthetic cartilage material and shaved the meniscus.† (source)
- I feel a crunch of cartilage as he cries out.† (source)
- Sean had played every minute of both games with a torn cartilage in his knee, and afterwards had to be treated by trainers.† (source)
- He cussed, wincing as he pulled at the cartilage.† (source)
- Emily and Francesca Selvaggio were joined from the chest to the upper abdomen, sharing an umbilical cord, skin, muscle, and rib cartilage.† (source)
- But to me the hard cartilage is like eating the bones of a fish.† (source)
- Every time I coughed, the pain from my torn thoracic cartilage felt like someone was jabbing a knife beneath my ribs, and brought tears to my eyes.† (source)
- She couldn't have been more than fourteen or fifteen and seemed to have as many piercings in the cartilage of each ear.† (source)
- Your nose ignites, flameless kerosene (and, some say, Drano) laced with ephedrine you want to cry powdered demons bite through cartilage and sinuses, take dead aim at your brain, jump inside want to scream troops of tapping feet fall into rhythm, marking time, right between your eyes get the urge to dance louder, louder, ultra gray-matter power, shock waves of energy mushroom inside your head you want to let go detonate, annihilate barriers, bring down the walls, unleashing floodwaters, freeing long-captive dreams to ride the current through arteries and capillaries, pulsing, rushing, raging torrents pounding against your heart sweeping you away.† (source)
- "Not an option," Adam told the doctor, which left the alternative "Band-Aid" option: removal of all the loose cartilage and bone shards "floating" in and around his ankle joints.† (source)
- He cut the cartilages that connected the two ribs to the breastbone.† (source)
- How those shark-cartilage supplements treating you?† (source)
- Four of his knuckles were disjointed, and white cartilage showed through his mangled skin.† (source)
- He felt the solid blow as he connected, heard the crunch of cartilage and the man's scream.† (source)
- Fluoroquinolones cause cartilage damage in immature beagle pups.† (source)
- The sharp crack of the knife ripping through cartilage.† (source)
- It was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever.† (source)
- She hit him again, heard the crunch of cartilage as his nose fountained more blood.† (source)
- Deftly he slit its throat, and as the blood spilled across the table with no ceremonial bowl to catch it, he turned the knife and slid it into the body just below the cartilage at the top of the rib cage.† (source)
- And it was good, Colin supposed, if you happened to enjoy searching through an endless labyrinth of bones and cartilage for the occasional sliver of meat.† (source)
- She learned that she had torn the cartilage of two ribs, that she had sprained an ankle, ripped patches of skin off one knee and one elbow, and acquired a few bruises spread in purple blotches over her body.† (source)
- On the basis of height and weight he'd assumed she was around twenty-four months, he said, but the development of cartilage in the carpals and metacarpals indicated that she was closer to three.† (source)
- More cartilage and tendon tissue were lost from the chronic inflammation.† (source)
- He lunged, the rigid fingers of his left hand clamped vice-like over the man's face as he plunged the letter-opener into the soldier's neck, the blade rushing through sinew and fragile cartilage, severing the windpipe.† (source)
- He ate as he made his way back to the arroyo, chewing the soft bone cartilage of pork ribs he found.† (source)
- It was the size of a golf ball, protruding from his spine, feeling like cartilage.† (source)
- I did not know if the dovelike cartilage was part of the sand dollar's circulatory system or not and I never tried to find out.† (source)
- She is experimenting with lab-grown cartilage.
- Conventional X rays don't provide good images of cartilage.
- I sat up: oblique strain to the cartilage between the lower ribs.† (source)
- He picked up a bottle of shark-cartilage capsules, examining it, then set it aside.† (source)
- I couldn't imagine someone actually wanting some shark cartilage for Christmas.† (source)
- A gloved hand came down hard over her mouth and nose, and she thought she heard cartilage crack in her nose.† (source)
- He started with the deepest layers of the girl's face, with the bones and cartilage, and slowly worked his way outward, singing all the while.† (source)
- An involuntary groan escaped him as his fingers popped back into their sockets, and as his abraded tendons and crushed cartilage regained the fullness of their proper shapes, and as the flaps of skin hanging from his knuckles again covered the raw flesh below.† (source)
- My worst problem, though, was my chest: the dry hack I'd picked up weeks earlier in Lobuie had gotten so bad that I'd torn some thoracic cartilage during an especially robust bout of coughing at Camp Three.† (source)
- A friend who worked at Claire's at the mall did her piercings the following weekend —a string of holes in each ear, up through the cartilage, a stud in her nose, and a ring in her eyebrow (though that one didn't last; it soon got infected and had to be taken out, the remaining scar a spiderweb tracing).† (source)
- I was flipped onto my back, one of the man's forearms braced against my neck, crushing the fragile rings of cartilage.† (source)
- Her perky breasts pushed through her shama while the cartilage of her nose had collapsed to form a saddle nose.† (source)
- That's more than Prof Vogel could ever say of his cartilages.† (source)
- Chunks of cartilage that didn't have anything except life so they grew on chemicals.† (source)
- It was a little discouraging that the girls were his heiresses, as he right away told me, probably guessing that I wasn't bringing out the flower of my charm for his old cartilage-heavy Rembrandt of a squash nose with its white hairs and gunpowder speckles.† (source)
- But still they are the admiration of the rest of the mud-sprung, famine-knifed, street-pounding, war-rattled, difficult, painstaking, kicked in the belly, grief and cartilage mankind, the multitude, some under a coal-sucking Vesuvius of chaos smoke, some inside a heaving Calcutta midnight, who very well know where they are.† (source)
- But he was one up on the cartilage.† (source)
- ANOTHER (in a hollow voice, darting on all-fours from under the table, where he had crept): And if you would not perish in flower o' youth, —Oh, mention not the fatal cartilage!† (source)
- The Marquis de Forestelle's monocle was minute and rimless, and, by enforcing an incessant and painful contraction of the eye over which it was incrusted like a superfluous cartilage, the presence of which there was inexplicable and its substance unimaginable, it gave to his face a melancholy refinement, and led women to suppose him capable of suffering terribly when in love.† (source)
- Phipps, the Unitarian, had a front tooth broken, and Henfrey was injured in the cartilage of his ear.† (source)
- As we age, muscles grow tough, because of increased collagen in the connective tissue—that's the glue, you see, the chief component of bones and cartilage.† (source)
- I didn't laugh—I am always thankful for that—but the strain ruptured every cartilage in me, and for weeks afterward I could hear my bones clack when I walked.† (source)
- When gelatinous cells began to produce glutens in place of mucin, the fetal fluid solidified into fibrous connective tissue, to cartilage; and he watched as calcium salts and fats were extracted from the surrounding liquid to form bone.† (source)
- veins, arteries, capillaries, all oozing lymph; with its scaffold of bones, some of them tubes filled with marrow, some like blades, some like bulbs, some torqued vertebrae, but all originating in a gelatinous base that with the help of calcium salts and lime had grown Arm enough to support the rest; with its joints made of tendons, cartilage, and slippery, well-oiled balls and sockets; with its more than two hundred muscles; with its central system of organs for nutrition and respiration, for registering and transmitting stimuli; with its protective membranes, serous cavities, and glands pumping secretions; with its complicated interior, a network of pipes and crevices, includin† (source)
- Perhaps we may yet meet with some of those saurians which science has reconstructed out of a bit of bone or cartilage.† (source)
- The bull, thus secured, could not move; and while Jack held his head I drew my knife and pierced the cartilage of his nose, and when the blood flowed less freely, passed a stout cord through the hole.† (source)
- Her clean-cut head, with prominent, bright, spirited eyes, broadened out at the open nostrils, that showed the red blood in the cartilage within.† (source)
- The ornaments that were ordinarily pendant from the cartilages of his ears had been removed, on account of his present pursuit.† (source)
- They consist of two distinct series: the series of bony fish, in other words, those whose spines have vertebrae made of bone; and cartilaginous fish, in other words, those whose spines have vertebrae made of cartilage.† (source)
- A large drop, composed of similar materials, was suspended from the cartilage of his nose, and, falling below his lips, rested on his chin.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- "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)
- The medallion was the only ornament he wore, although enormous slits in the rim of either ear, which suffered the cartilages to fall two inches below the members, had evidently been used for the purposes of decoration in other days.† (source)
- These flat disks on their heads consist of crosswise plates of movable cartilage, between which the animals can create a vacuum, enabling them to stick to objects like suction cups.† (source)
- In the top part of this enormous head, inside big cavities separated by cartilage, you'll find 300 to 400 kilograms of that valuable oil called "spermaceti."† (source)
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