How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun

• She fell and damaged some cartilage in her knee.
• Pull the skin and cartilage off the knobby end of the drumstick and clean it up with a knife or kitchen scissors.
  — Allie Morris, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• Knees with bone dust in place of cartilage. Ruined ankle.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• The thinning of the cartilage also narrows the space between the bones.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
• The procedure shaved down some cartilage and removed two pieces of bone embedded in the labrum of his left hip.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2020
• And then had an MRI which showed a significant loss of cartilage and a need for surgery.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2020
• Banffy, who has examined draft prospects at the past four combines, explained damaged knee cartilage can lead to arthritis.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 2 May 2020
• Protein is also an essential building block of bones, muscles, skin, blood, and cartilage.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2020
• Glucosamine supplements may help reduce inflammation and help slow the loss of cartilage.
  — Kelsey Kunik, Rd, Health, 10 Aug. 2024
• An injury affecting cartilage in his knee kept him out of action from February through mid-March.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2020
• The object is a just a scant shard of cartilage from the skull of a baby hadrosaur called Hypacrosaurus that perished more than 70 million years ago.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2020
• When your synovium becomes inflamed due to your immune system’s attack, this lining gets thicker, which can damage your cartilage and bones.
  — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 26 Aug. 2020
• One of the men had a strain of the virus that causes hepatitis B; another suffered from yaws, a syphilis-like bacterial infection of the skin, bones and cartilage.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
• And in an interesting way, that mirrors the specific interest in cartilage as the first kind of tissue made in the levitational bioassembler.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2020
• The meniscus is the disk of cartilage that sits in your knee joint.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• How many boomers have that kind of cartilage left in their joints?
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that serves as a shock absorber for the knee joint.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
• It had long been thought that cartilage, once gone, cannot grow back.
  — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• Stem cells, she was told, could regrow the cartilage in her knee.
  — AZCentral.com, 12 June 2021
• Mike Bites ears have a bite mark at the top of the gummy, right where Tyson took off a piece of Holyfield's cartilage.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber for the knee joint — the bigger the person, the bigger the strain.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2021
• The labrum is a ring of cartilage that helps stabilize the shoulder joint.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
• The other thing here is the presence of cartilage in these structures.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
• This deformity can lead to a tearing of a cartilage in the hip joint called the labrum.
  — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
• Many places don’t even serve them because they are strewn with bone and cartilage.
  — Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• That piercing sits in the ear cartilage across the lower ear canal from the standard tragus.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 12 July 2022
• His doctor told him that so much lifting had worn down the cartilage in his spine.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Protein is one of the key building blocks of muscles, cartilage, bones, and skin.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• By this point, the cartilage between the bones has worn away, causing the bones to rub together.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024