Sample Sentences for
spinal cord
(auto-selected)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    The cause of death was extensive injuries to the brain and spinal cord due to a fall through an open grate of the fire tower, sixty-three feet to the ground.†  (source)
  • •
    She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails gliding across the spinal cord of each book.†  (source)
  • •
    Eventually we got all the way to the base of the skull where the spinal cord and the brain stem meet, and we were still having the same problem.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
  • •
    Using as few medical terms as possible, Dr. Swaney explained to the jury the type of cancer that was killing Seth Hubbard, with emphasis on the tumors that metastasized to his spinal cord and ribs.†  (source)
  • •
    They had been behind German lines before many times —living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords.†  (source)
  • •
    They're bouncing back and forth, banging against my eyeballs and eardrums and the top of my spinal cord.†  (source)
  • •
    The Man I Killed His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his eyebrows were thin and arched like a woman's, his nose was undamaged, there was a slight tear at the lobe of one ear, his clean black hair was swept upward into a cowlick at the rear of the skull, his forehead was lightly freckled, his fingernails were clean, the skin at his left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips, his right cheek was smooth and hairless, there was a butterfly on his chin, his neck was open to the spinal cord and the blood there was thick and shiny and it was this wound that had killed him.†  (source)
  • •
    The blade flashed in rotation, once, twice, then buried itself in the base of the man's neck, severing his spinal cord before the man had time to react.†  (source)
  • •
    Once the spinal cord is severed, there is no hope.†  (source)
  • •
    The bullet had shattered her spinal cord.†  (source)
  • •
    They removed the brain, eyes, and spinal cord and dropped them into a jar of preservative.†  (source)
  • •
    The first bullet drilled into his jawbone, the second sliced through his neck and his spinal cord.†  (source)
  • •
    You're sure it wasn't stuck to the spinal cord, anything like that?†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)