Sample Sentences forcartilage (auto-selected)
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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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It was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever.† (source)
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I feel a crunch of cartilage as he cries out.† (source)
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He had messed up his cartilage so bad that they had to operate.† (source)
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But to me the hard cartilage is like eating the bones of a fish.† (source)
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Impossibly tall, four-armed, molded in chrome and cartilage, the Shrike turned its red gaze on us.† (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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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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Emily and Francesca Selvaggio were joined from the chest to the upper abdomen, sharing an umbilical cord, skin, muscle, and rib cartilage.† (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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"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)
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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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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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He cut the cartilages that connected the two ribs to the breastbone.† (source)
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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)
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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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