Sample Sentences forligament (editor-reviewed)
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She tore a knee ligament and will miss the rest of the season.ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
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She injured a ligament in her knee during the soccer game.ligament = bone-connecting band
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Both tendons and ligaments are connective tissue.ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
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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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Watching the dog move told Edgar it would be two weeks—two, three, even—before they could travel, assuming Tinder's paw didn't get infected, and he hadn't cut a tendon or ligament so vital he would (as Henry had so delicately suggested) be crippled.† (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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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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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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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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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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Blood had filled the broad ligament on one side.† (source)
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