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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    Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.†  (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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    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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    Blood had filled the broad ligament on one side.†  (source)
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    The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires.†  (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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