How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun

• She fell and damaged some cartilage in her knee.
• How many boomers have that kind of cartilage left in their joints?
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• Much of what scientist know of these fish comes from teeth, jaws and some skull cartilage.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
• An osteochondral lesion is a break in the cartilage that spreads itself over a bone.
  — Devin, Longreads, 2 Feb. 2021
• While ancient shark teeth have been found all over the world, because they are made of cartilage, fossilized shark skeletons are rare.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2021
• The fish don’t swallow the lures, and fishers can hook them by their mouth cartilage, causing the least possible harm.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• But tanezumab can, in rare cases, accelerate cartilage loss around joints.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• My hands feel unmoisturized, as if the skin on them is desiccating from the cartilage upward.
  — Andrea Plaid, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021
• Surgery to repair torn cartilage keeping him from participating in the playoffs.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2021
• Or the time Jones had surgery to fix a cartilage issue in his knee during his junior season and still showed up to watch practice later that day in a wheelchair.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
• Protein is essential for building and maintaining bones, skin, and cartilage, which keeps our skeleton strong and our skin healthy, enabling us to stay active and feel good.
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 18 July 2024
• Shred the meat into bite-size pieces, discarding the bones and cartilage, then add it back to the stew along with the tofu, scallion greens, sugar, and remaining kimchi.
  — Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The carnivorous fish leave little behind because their skeletons comprise mostly soft cartilage, rather than bone.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2021
• Pedaling felt like a celebration of kinetic energy, of blood, cartilage and bone.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Babies are born with kneecaps made entirely of cartilage, so their knees are called 'cartilage patellae' (literally cartilage kneecaps).
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• By chance, a scan revealed an issue in the cartilage of her pubic arch.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024