How to Use fibula in a Sentence

fibula

noun

• 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
• On April 27, the 29-year-old Craig underwent surgery to have a plate installed over a break in his left fibula just above the ankle.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2021
• Scar sunk his teeth into her right calf, breaking her fibula.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 18 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024