How to Use injury-prone in a Sentence

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• But injury-prone fourth outfielders don’t get eight-year, $162 million contracts.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 July 2024
• Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis are dominant, yet injury-prone centers who have managed to remain healthy for this Olympic run.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024
• For the Lakers to compete for a championship, the injury-prone Davis will have to remain healthy.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• But with the injury-prone George and Embiid in tow, health is always a question mark.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Harder running surfaces and a stiff shoe are the best bet for injury-prone calf muscles.
  — Ian McMahan, Outside Online, 18 Sep. 2020
• Second-year lineman Tyre Phillips has been injury-prone, and his future could be at guard.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• As a result, trail runners are no more or less injury-prone than road runners.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023
• However, Harden has been injury-prone that past two seasons and has lost a step.
  — oregonlive, 30 June 2023
• But he was labeled as an injury-prone player early in his NBA career through no fault of his own.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2022
• The Guardians already have enough poor fielding, streaky and injury-prone outfielders.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2021
• To get him, the Dodgers traded their own injury-prone pitcher in Pepiot, who also has a high upside.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• The utility infielder has been injury-prone dating back to his years in the minors in the Giants system.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Buehler stumbling would leave the team exposed if the injury-prone Glasnow goes down again or Yoshinobu Yamamoto fatigues in the late stages of the season.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
• It’s been a dizzying run of injuries and poor performance at the game’s most important position for the game, but injury-prone Browns.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Hughes, meanwhile, has shown electric talent in his three seasons, but has been injury-prone.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
• Say injury-prone Trout can play 140 regular-season games.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• His first player was injury-prone ace Jacob deGrom, who at $23 could be a huge bargain … or an expensive bust.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Things are so unsettled, their most reliable pitcher is the aging and injury-prone Kershaw.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• Things are so unsettled, their most reliable pitcher is the aging and injury-prone Kershaw.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• At the end of last season, Severino looked an awful lot like the unhittable pitcher of yore and less like the erratic, injury-prone hurler that many feared would be his new permanent state.
  — Matthew Roberson, Hartford Courant, 16 Dec. 2022
• Glasnow has kept a schedule similar to Yamamoto’s, as the Dodgers are mindful of how the injury-prone right-hander has never pitched more than 120 innings during a season.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
• The Yankees have said that the injury-prone Loáisiga is indeed healthy this spring after multiple elbow issues, including surgery to remove a bone spur, limited him to 17 games last year.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
• He was afforded an opportunity to run it back with a talented but injury-prone roster.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Ball and LaVine are cornerstones for the Bulls, but both are also injury-prone, a vulnerability highlighted by their absences last season.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2022
• Their primary backup, injury-prone Adalberto Mondesí, will open the season on the injured list recovering from knee surgery.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• There is a differing argument that Butler, about to turn 35 and injury-prone, is not worth the investment -- and that Miami cannot compete for a championship if Butler remains their top player.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 12 May 2024
• Acquiring an expensive, 30-year-old, injury-prone tight end was also made with a win-now mindset as Daboll and some players quietly talked about Super Bowl aspirations.
  — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2024
• After garnering a reputation as injury-prone early in his career, Hays is approaching two years since his last injured list stint, playing through severe cuts, bruises and muscles tears in that time.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2023
• After garnering a reputation as injury-prone early in his career, Hays is approaching two years since his last injured list stint, playing through severe cuts, bruises and muscles tears in that time.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2023
• Albeit saddled with a horrendous offensive line, a lackluster run game that averages just 3.4 yards per carry (second worst in NFL), an injury-prone receiving unit and an inconsistent defense.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024