How to Use anatomical in a Sentence

anatomical

adjective
  • Nothing is off limits, from the goofy to the anatomical.
    Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Krakow added an anatomical heart emoji alongside the snap.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2024
  • From an anatomical perspective, not all women are built the same.
    Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There's no single anatomical structure that is the G-spot.
    Gigi Engle, SELF, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Like most fossil hominins, the species was a mix of apelike and humanlike anatomical traits.
    Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Listening to the progression of her symptoms was like being taken on an anatomical tour of the brain.
    Suzanne O’Sullivan, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Threaded through the show are Renaissance prints and drawings that attest to the growth of the anatomical sciences.
    Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
  • His anatomical studies drilled down on the biology of facial expressions.
    Claudia Kalb, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The ‘linked’ construction of the silk ruffles reminds me a lot of bones, specifically vertebrae—a link back to my love of anatomical structure.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Sparks is up here constantly, examining the models for anatomical correctness.
    Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • What’s not firmly established is whether these anatomical features emerged through natural selection to enhance the ability to run long distances.
    Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
  • This exhibition celebrates the relationship between art and anatomical science over the last four centuries.
    Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • Every anatomical variation is discussed in clinical detail.
    James Atlas, Town & Country, 3 Dec. 2018
  • The rest of the film unfolds with the highs and lows of pregnancy, with no anatomical stone left unturned.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2024
  • The focus would be on the rare, the terrifying and the anatomical outliers.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • The rest of the slides show more of the anatomical details of creating Musgraves's wax figure.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Its tubular siphon, which can grow to be 3 feet long, is an easy target for anatomical jokes.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The cover art for this hard-to-find copy is said to contain a male anatomical part drawn into a sea castle.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Brewer’s Best has a firm malt backbone, as the cliché goes, and a firm malt rib cage, nervous system, sinews, the whole anatomical lot.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Because the barite gave the ichthyosaur’s bones a bright glow, the team was able to observe anatomical features that had been overlooked or obscured.
    Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Truman and his team wanted to know, in great anatomical detail, how much of the brain of a larva persists in that of an adult fly.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The book is arranged by anatomical part, and Gross details the function each part carries out.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But the electrical field seemed to vary unpredictably across the brain's anatomical folds.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But the electrical field seemed to vary unpredictably across the brain's anatomical folds.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the largest and most ferocious dinosaurs of all time had an anatomical secret to their success.
    Riley Black, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The other is a valve system—that is, an anatomical flap somewhere in the body that, when shut, can keep lymph from flowing willy-nilly.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
  • To be fair, a lot of women might not be clear on this particular anatomical point.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2020
  • It’s not a term—nor an anatomical designation—that anyone gave much thought to a few years ago.
    April Long, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The anatomical insole has extra arch and heel support to prevent foot pain.
    Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2022
  • Except the carrot looked more like an anatomical heart, and the blood certainly wasn’t helping.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019

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