fibulain a sentence
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I have a broken fibula, but since it isn't weight-bearing, the doctor said I can walk on it.
fibula = calf bone in the leg
- Tissue from the fibula is sometimes used to reconstruct the mandible.
- "Tibia," we said. "Fibula, sternum, clavicle, radius, ulna, kidneys, liver, lungs, heart, brain." (source)
- I learned that the bones in the leg are the femur, the tibia, the patella, and the fibula.† (source)
- Jacoby then heard what sounded like a gunshot—the tibia and fibula in Joe Theismann's right leg snapping beneath Taylor.† (source)
- The diagnosis was simple: a broken fibula.† (source)
- It's probably a good thing that we avoided overtime, as I headed straight to the hospital where x-rays revealed I'd been playing with a complete break to my fibula.† (source)
- My grandfather had left fibula pins.† (source)
- An infection spiked up and he was rushed to the emergency room downtown where a two-inch section of his tibia and fibula was removed.† (source)
- Ozzie had always claimed he heard the fibula snap.† (source)
- He indicated the fibula with a curved finger.† (source)
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- Nothing prepared him for the wall of bones that burst skyward—hundreds of femurs, ribs, and fibulas entangling the wolves, forming a spiky briar of human remains.† (source)
- The fibula of Booth's lower left leg, a small bone that bears little weight, snaps two inches above the ankle.† (source)
- Her missing fibula pin with the rubies and gold beads pinning up your sleeve.† (source)
- In possession of the queen's garnet fibula pin, and serve her right.† (source)
- In the dry pocket I also had a small knife with a folding blade that had belonged to the man sitting next to us at lunch one day, several pieces of leather thong, one longer piece of cotton twine, and the fibula pin that the magus used to hook his cloak.† (source)
- As if shattering his fibula while leaping to the stage wasn't bad enough, Booth's horse threw him during his thirty-mile midnight ride through Maryland, hurling his body into a rock.† (source)
- Eddis had noticed her fibula pin reappearing on Eugenides's sleeve, but that had disappeared before he left for Attolia the final time.† (source)
- The golden bees—earrings the color of honey that were older than the monarchy—and brooches and fibula pins, ruby earrings and gold necklets and bracelets had all been dropped one by one into carefully chosen hands.† (source)
- I found a ring, two rings, gold buttons, silver buttons, brass buttons, fibulas, brooches.† (source)
- She was a patient there for fourteen months, during which she underwent three major operations: the first, not very successful, to help restore her thigh; the second to free her knee; and the third to rebreak her tibia and fibula and set them in something like their original alignment.† (source)
- He was mostly found lying on his side, in an oval scoop in the chalk, like a chicken in its shell; his knees drawn up to his chest; sometimes with the remains of his spear against his arm, a fibula or brooch of bronze on his breast or forehead, an urn at his knees, a jar at his throat, a bottle at his mouth; and mystified conjecture pouring down upon him from the eyes of Casterbridge street boys and men, who had turned a moment to gaze at the familiar spectacle as they passed by.† (source)
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