Sample Sentences for
fibula
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    I learned that the bones in the leg are the femur, the tibia, the patella, and the fibula.†  (source)
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    Ozzie had always claimed he heard the fibula snap.†  (source)
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    The diagnosis was simple: a broken fibula.†  (source)
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    My grandfather had left fibula pins.†  (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)
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    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)
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    I found a ring, two rings, gold buttons, silver buttons, brass buttons, fibulas, brooches.†  (source)
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    He indicated the fibula with a curved finger.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The fibula of Booth's lower left leg, a small bone that bears little weight, snaps two inches above the ankle.†  (source)
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    Jacoby then heard what sounded like a gunshot—the tibia and fibula in Joe Theismann's right leg snapping beneath Taylor.†  (source)
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    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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    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)
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