How to Use femur in a Sentence

femur

noun

• The bullet lodged in his femur, and Gomez dropped to the ground.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
• Some of the carvings on the femur bones depict a man holding a jade mask just like the one in the tomb.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• The force of the blow snapped his femur and smashed his internal organs.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• Examples of long bones include the bones of the leg and arm — like the femur and the fibula — as well as the bones of the fingers and toes.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The thigh bone, or the femur, is rounded on its edge to fit inside the inward curve, or socket, of the pelvis.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
• The flow rate per gram in the femur of a two-kilogram hatchling Maiasaura was 15 times higher than that of the adults.
  — Roger S. Seymour, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The femur weighed roughly 50 pounds and measured four feet long.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• The head of the femur (upper leg bone) sits in the acetabulum, a socket in the pelvic bone to create the hip joint.
  — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
• Some bones, such as the longest bone, the femur which is in your thigh, take up a substantial portion of the body.
  — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
• Police said the man suffered second- and third-degree burns on the left side of his body and a fractured femur.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• This end contains the femur and pelvic bone, which can be challenging to carve around.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2024
• It’s when the two ends of the bone — the end of the femur with cartilage against the end of the tibia with cartilage — smash against each other.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• The man was taken to a hospital with a fractured pelvis and femur.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• Thicker bones, like the femur and humerus, tend to better withstand heat.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• The next target is patellofemoral osteoarthritis [affecting the kneecap and part of the femur].
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 5 Sep. 2021
• When Porter shot Carter, the gunshot shattered her femur.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2022
• The procedure involves breaking the leg above the femur bone and then realigning the knee and leg.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
• The top of the femur in the hip is the most common bone affected, but many other bones can be affected.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2021
• Macomber, the post said, suffered major burns to his face and neck as well as a shattered femur.
  — Anjali Huynh, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• Houston was also shot in the thigh, which fractured his femur.
  — Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2022
• Trent had torn his Achilles tendon, broken his left femur and suffered a nasty gash on his head.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The muscle begins at the top of your pelvis bone and inserts into the upper portion of your femur, or thigh bone.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 May 2023
• In May, surgeons cut Duffy's femur in half, rotated it and secured it with a plate.
  — Stacy Rollins, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• To test the curing process, the caladores puncture, in rapid succession, four specific spots—the hock, next to the hip bone and twice around a joint of the hip and femur.
  — Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• The other bullets broke his femur and caused nerve damage to his forearm.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The driver of the Dodge was taken to a hospital with a fractured femur, Foster said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Almost no one does it, but since breaking his femur Wise struggled to land the switch right double.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• Identified through the remains of his right femur, a tooth, his left fibula, and portion of his left hip.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• Then, a bullet shattered the 28-year-old woman's femur.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
• Peyton had an enormous tumor that had grown out of his right femur and was crowding his knee.
  — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024