Sample Sentences for
ligament
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    While tendons connect muscles to each other or to bone, ligaments connect bone to bone.
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    In general, bones heal better than ligaments.
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    Dad made him quit after he tore a ligament, though.  (source)
    ligament = a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages
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    Grant had finally put that one to rest, by demonstrating that many species of birds and reptiles underwent a postmortem contraction of posterior neck ligaments, which bent the head backward in a characteristic way.†  (source)
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    On Heaven's Gate, I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor.†  (source)
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    It was necessary to pull hard enough to tear ligaments in the deceased's groin, and this Horace Whaley did.†  (source)
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    Every muscle, bone and ligament will hurt like they've been put through a meat grinder.†  (source)
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    The feel of gravity, too, was a surprising pleasure, as was the fact that he could extend his arm and bring it back, and that its strength was intact and served by the complicated apparatus of muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons, and bone compounded within his arm like a block and tackle used to raise a plinth.†  (source)
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    His room smelled of turpentine, which Doc had prescribed as a liniment for the pulled ligament.†  (source)
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    Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.†  (source)
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    Blood had filled the broad ligament on one side.†  (source)
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    Here, on this wild outskirt of the earth, I shall pitch my tent; for, elsewhere a wanderer, and isolated from human interests, I find here a woman, a man, a child, amongst whom and myself there exist the closest ligaments.†  (source)
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    Your daughter likely tore a ligament in the beginning and doubtless kept hurting the same leg over and over.†  (source)
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