How to Use fibula in a Sentence

fibula

noun
  • Scar sunk his teeth into her right calf, breaking her fibula.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Fractures tend to happen in the fibula or tibia bones in your lower leg, making walking on the affected leg painful.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 7 July 2024
  • Penny has dealt with everything from a broken finger to a torn ACL to a broken fibula in his career.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2024
  • Cody Bellinger broke his fibula the first week of the season.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Four days later, one bone was found in the SUV — a fibula.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Breaux broke his fibula Week 1 and played just six games.
    Josh Katzenstein, NOLA.com, 26 May 2017
  • The feature in question is the fibula, one of two bones inside the leg.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2016
  • Cookus suffered a broken fibula on the hit that knocked him from the game.
    Barry Werner, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
  • But in the Sooners’ third game of the season, Ford broke his left fibula against Ohio State.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Bowen had broken the tibia and fibula in his right leg.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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 fibula, also called the calf bone, is a long bone that runs next to the larger tibia bone, or shin bone.
    Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2022
  • Levens played again in Week 2 but then missed the next nine weeks with a fractured fibula.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2021
  • Frech was born without a knee and fibula in his left leg and fingers on his left hand.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021
  • My fibula had pierced through my skin and had to be hammered and screwed back into place.
    Sarah Gad, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2019
  • Alex Killorn, who broke a fibula blocking a shot in Game 1 of the final.
    oregonlive, 8 July 2021
  • His tibia and fibula were fractured and bones broke in his foot.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The smaller bone in his lower right leg, the fibula, was broken.
    Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2023
  • Finegan broke his fibula and tibia in his right leg on Sept. 7 in a game against Penn State.
    Jenna West, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The diagnosis was a stress fracture in the fibula in the lower portion of the right leg.
    Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Surgery will be to fix the ligament to hold the ankle together as well as to plate the fibula.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Bellinger has been out since April 5 with a hairline fracture in his left fibula.
    Arkansas Online, 29 May 2021
  • Then in April, Bellinger suffered a hairline crack in his left fibula.
    New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • And on the slopes of one of the sand spits, a femur, fibula, and tibia (the bones of the leg) were found bundled together with two white stones.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • A little tumble and a cracked fibula weren't going to keep her home.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2023
  • With Andrus Peat finished with a fractured fibula, Kelemete steps in at left guard for the Saints.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The ankle joint is formed by three bones: the tibia (shin bone), the fibula (the bone next to the tibia in the outer calf) and the talus (a bone in the foot below the tibia).
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2023
  • There is some good news; the initial injury was called a stress fracture in his left fibula.
    Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
  • In 2019, docs removed a baseball-sized tumor from his jaw and repaired the bone with a piece of his fibula.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 17 May 2023
  • Drake Dabney broke his fibula against Texas Tech and had surgery on Monday.
    Michael Haag, Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022

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