How to Use bone spur in a Sentence

bone spur

noun

• Each bird sports a pair of sharpened bone spurs on its wings.
  — National Geographic, 28 May 2020
• The bone spurs identified in the study ranged in size from 10 to 31 millimeters.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2019
• Betts is moving around better at Dodgers camp now that the bone spur in his right hip has healed.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2022
• Friction between bones may also lead to bone spurs—bone growth at the edge of bones.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
• The righthander has bone spurs in his right elbow and will be checked during the All-Star break to see whether surgery is needed . .
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• One-third of those showed the bone spur, with the frequency decreasing with age.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 June 2019
• Aging can also cause spine changes like bone spurs, which could lead to flare-ups.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
• English, 32, had been feeling the affects of a torn labrum and a bone spur since his college days.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2022
• Also had surgery to remove a bone spur in his right elbow.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• Rochelin, from Arizona State, had bone spur surgery and is out for a couple months.
  — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2022
• Urshela played for the first time since Wednesday due to a bone spur in his throwing elbow.
  — Larry Fleisher, Star Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• Luplow’s surgery involved the removal of a bone spur in his ankle.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2021
• The right-hander has bone spurs in his right elbow and will be checked during the All-Star break to see whether surgery is needed.
  — Cincinnati.com, 7 July 2019
• Pain on the back of the elbow while throwing may be caused by bone spurs or soft tissue impingement.
  — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
• Linebacker Bradley Chubb has yet to return from ankle surgery to remove a bone spur.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
• The upcoming surgery will be to remove a bone spur in his pitching elbow.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• In July of 1968, Collins was found to have a bone spur between two vertebrae in his neck and needed surgery.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2019
• Four for education and one for having had bone spurs in his feet.
  — Adam Edelman, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2017
• In 2016, a shoulder injury and surgery to remove a bone spur from his left elbow claimed the final month and a half of his season.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• Rose has been out since Nov. 7 with ankle injuries ranging from a sprained left ankle to bone spurs.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Key players: Betts, who played several months of the season with a painful bone spur in his right hip, is healthy and getting hot at the right time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• According to the Post, young people are more and more developing bone spurs, or hard bony bumps, on the back of their skulls.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2019
• These types of bone spurs are more commonly found in the elderly, and are assumed to be a normal part of the aging process.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 21 June 2019
• After beginning slowly at the plate, Betts was sidelined by a bone spur in his right hip.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Earlier this year, Burks was battling a bone spur injury that cast doubt on her Olympic dreams.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 22 July 2021
• Freeman has struggled with bone spurs in his right elbow and at one point last month could not straighten his right arm.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
• After gritting his way through the relays, Bromell went home and underwent surgery to remove the bone spur.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 19 June 2021
• LeMahieu batted leadoff and started at 3B in place of Gio Urshela, who sat out again with a bone spur in his right elbow.
  — Mike Fitzpatrick, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• Febles, who joined the coaching staff last season, has been dealing with bone spurs since his playing career, then came down with a case of gout.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• Four of those were academic and one was, as the New York Times reported, for apparently bone spurs in his foot.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024