How to Use connective tissue in a Sentence

connective tissue

noun
  • Remove the sinew and connective tissue but keep the fat.
    Paula Forbes, GQ, 1 July 2018
  • The epidural space, which is the outermost part of the spinal canal, contains spinal nerve roots and loose connective tissue.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Your body uses amino acids to build muscle, bone, cartilage, skin, hair, connective tissue, and a lot else.
    Markham Heid, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2018
  • This condition results from a thickening and tightening of connective tissue in the palm of the hand.
    Joe Graedonteresa Graedon, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
  • These cells secrete a hormone that instructs connective tissues throughout the body — skin, bone, muscle, tendons — to start growing again.
    Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Leave it to Konnan to find the connective tissue between lucha libre, the United States, and hip-hop.
    Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Collagen is essential for healthy skin, blood vessels, bones and connective tissues—without it, the body cannot function properly.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But particularly in Season 2, there’s a lot of sonic connective tissue as well.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In alligators, crocodiles and their relatives, muscle and connective tissue fix the animals’ tongues along the entire length, from base to tip.
    Mindy Weisberger, Scientific American, 24 June 2018
  • By all means, foam roll that tight fascia (connective tissue that attaches your muscles to tendons and bones) to promote blood flow and flexibility of the soft tissue in your tight thighs and calves.
    SELF, 26 Sep. 2018
  • The same is true for burger grind—in order for a shop, especially a whole animal shop, to function, the tougher cuts with more connective tissue that don’t fare well as a steak have to fulfill their destiny as burger meat.
    Cara Nicoletti, GQ, 3 July 2018
  • Trim the skin and any traces of connective tissue from the sides of the swordfish steaks.
    Wolfgang Puck, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • As to the carne, choose a cut of beef that has lots of connective tissue and flavor.
    Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Think of it as the connective tissue that will bring us into the next era of trends.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2021
  • These blades slice through fascia, fats, and connective tissue to take the chew out of the meat.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • And my third bucket is the connective tissue work, the lower leg, the ankle, the Achilles, the calf.
    Greg Presto, Men's Health, 26 July 2022
  • The folds of flesh and connective tissue in the video looked foreign compared to what lay in front of me.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In other words, the dots are there, but the connective tissue isn’t.
    Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2020
  • It is caused by fat deposits that push against the connective tissue in the skin.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Clean and trim all the connective tissue from the organs.
    Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 19 Feb. 2020
  • This is her skill: her easy patter about the connective tissue of life that links strangers.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • Discard the bones and connective tissue, and chop the meat into bite-sized chunks.
    Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • And that's certainly the connective tissue of the show.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Hence the decision to make that idea the connective tissue binding the show.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Save for a single image at the start of the special, there were no signs of Avengers or hints of connective tissue.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Oct. 2022
  • And Billie’s voice is the connective tissue through them all.
    Arabelle Sicardi, Allure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • While the potatoes cook, pull the short rib meat off the bones, removing any bits of connective tissue.
    Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The idea was also to have a kind of connective tissue to what the audience has seen before.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Thankfully, She-Hulk is giving us some of the connective tissue that tells us the Avengers are there.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The couple make their chin rests from wood harvested on their land in the Cinque Terre and their glue from fish skin or the connective tissue of cows.
    Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024

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