How to Use long bone in a Sentence

long bone

noun

• The research team knows little else about the inch-long bone.
  — Ian Cartwright, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2018
• Alongside the chalk drum in the grave was long bone pin, which might have held a shroud in place, and a clay ball, that a child might play with.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
• 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
• As a bone grows, new tissue is deposited on the outside, and in the long bones growth also occurs at the ends of the shafts.
  — Kevin Padian, Scientific American, 1 May 2014
• But it was limited to four measurements of the skull and three of long bones — the tibia, humerus and radius.
  — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
• Their long bones are hardening, and their skin is thin and see-through but will soon become thicker.
  — Alexandra Frost, Parents, 5 Nov. 2023
• In addition to the drum, the team found a clay ball believed to be a child’s toy and a long bone pin that may have once kept a burial shroud in place, the Post reports.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• Like the other three types of bones, long bones are composed of a combination of compact bone and spongy bone.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• Underneath the uniform were a single tooth, two right rib fragments, one long bone fragment and the metatarsal from a right pinkie.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
• The 10 cm long bone is thought to have come from a mammal and has a series of notches along it, suggesting it could have been used as a tally stick.
  — Rachel Wood, CNN, 21 May 2021
• Forensic experts removed hair, nails and two long bones in July.
  — kansascity, 6 Sep. 2017
• Many of the skull and long bones were fractured while the bones were still fresh, perhaps to allow the surviving people of the group to extract the nutritious marrow.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• Howard has scanned items ranging in size from squirrel and rabbit bones to a bison's rib, as well as jaw and long bones from dire wolves, horses, big cats, camels and coyotes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• Two days into training camp, Adams had a broken foot, an injury that required surgery to insert a screw in the long bone on the outside of the foot that connects to the little toe.
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Oh, yes, there will be steakhouse flourishes: long bone ribeye; oysters on the half shell, crab legs, and both shrimp and lobster cocktail.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2019
• Ed said that Curt helped him perform the first surgery in Cincinnati in the mid-1970s using external fixaters – pins that stabilize long bones.
  — Fred Reeder Jr., Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Two days into his first training camp, Adams had a broken foot, an injury that required surgery to insert a screw in the long bone on the outside of the foot that connects to the little toe.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 15 Mar. 2022
• After puberty, when the long bones of the body are sealed, patients with acromegaly get bigger from soft-tissue enlargement but cannot grow taller.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Much like long bone growth, pelvis width is driven largely by estrogen levels.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2020
• The bones have since disappeared, but Hoodless’s seven measurements survived—four of the skull and three long bone lengths (humerus, radius, and tibia).
  — National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2018
• See it In the burial, researchers found long bones, including femurs, tibias, rays and ulnae, placed in their own sector.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• Those ligaments connect the humerus (the long bone in your upper arm between the elbow joint and shoulder) and the ulna (the long, thinner bone in your forearm on the opposite side of your thumb).
  — Gabriel Baumgaertner, SI.com, 4 July 2018
• On that note, many large breeds need loads of exercise, and certain precautions must be taken, because the growth plates of the long bones of large and giant breeds fuse later than those of small dogs.
  — Leigh Crandall, Country Living, 11 Aug. 2023
• The new analysis relies on four measurements from the skull, and three measurements from long bones: the tibia (one of two bones in the lower leg), the humerus (the long upper arm bone) and the radius (one of two forearm bones).
  — Jared Gilmour, kansascity, 7 Mar. 2018
• Swelling outer tissues and internal water pooling around long bones also meant the skeletons were baked rather than burned.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
• Deer bones from those layers—especially the metapodials (the long bones of the feet), which are rich in bone marrow—showed the telltale signs of people cracking them open to get at the marrow inside.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2019
• Such high growth rates in Maiasaura involved rapid lengthening and thickening of their long bones, and the process doubtlessly required much oxygen and nutrients from the blood.
  — Roger S. Seymour, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• Instead only the most distal ones are homologous to digit bones; the proximal radials are homologous to the wrist bones and the long bones of the palm.
  — John A. Long, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
• Sanders ultimately went through six rounds of chemotherapy and a three-week long bone marrow transplant, which was extremely hard on her body.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024