How to Use navicular in a Sentence
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The shoe’s got to fit right here, over the navicular bone.
—James B. Stewart, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
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Pelluer broke the navicular bone on his left foot – that’s the bone on the inner side of the foot just above the arch and the injury will require surgery.
—Stefanie Loh, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2017
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Warren played in four games all of last season because of a stress fracture in the navicular bone of his left foot.
—David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2021
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The Rockies moved Gray to the disabled list Friday because of a broken navicular bone in the middle of his left foot.
—Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
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Robinson will miss the rest of this season and needs surgery after a CT scan revealed a stress fracture on the navicular bone in his foot.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
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Warren appeared in only four games last season — the Pacers were 3-1 in those games — the last on Dec. 29, due to a stress fracture in the navicular bone in his left foot.
—Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2021
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Tuesday to repair a fractured navicular bone in his left foot, the team announced.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
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The center had missed the previous two seasons because of navicular bone surgeries on his right foot.
—Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 25 May 2017
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Warren has been out since the fourth game of the regular-season after receiving surgery because of a stress fracture in the navicular bone in his left foot.
—Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2021
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Gray also suffered a left foot navicular stress fracture during his third start in 2017.
—Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2019
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But Sellers’s college career was cut short her senior year because of a navicular stress fracture in her foot.
—Owen Pence, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
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Embiid, who sat out his first two seasons because of breaks to the navicular bone in his right foot, was having a sensational season.
—Darryl Matsuda, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
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Alec Burks is rehabbing a navicular fracture and will be re-evaluated in three weeks, the team announced Monday.
—Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2022
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Bol's college career was cut short in January after fracturing the navicular bone in his left foot.
—Emily Caron, SI.com, 21 June 2019
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That was a result of her returning at this year’s Wimbledon for her first tournament in 11 months following surgery to alleviate a fracture in her left navicular, a bone at the top of the foot near the ankle.
—Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2017
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While shin splints occur in the posterior tibialis muscle (the shin), posterior tibial tendonitis can occur in the tendon that wraps around the inside of the ankle and connects the muscle to the navicular bone at the midfoot.
—Outside Online, 17 June 2019
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Bol had surgery on his navicular bone in his left foot, an injury that doesn’t exactly have the best track record in regard to seven footers getting the injury, with multiple needing more than one procedure to fix the issue.
—Sean Meagher | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
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The Heat released a statement Tuesday evening sharing the details of Waiters’ surgery and a preexisting navicular bone fracture was also repaired.
—Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 23 Jan. 2018
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Hip and ankle flexibility was measured, as were foot posture index and navicular drop, which both assess how much your foot pronates (rolls inward) or supinates (rolls outward).
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
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Tilson, who was injured during his major-league debut last season, has been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the navicular bone in his right ankle and will be in a walking boot for four weeks before being reevaluated.
—Chris Kuc, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
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Nadal, who has a longstanding foot problem because his navicular bone did not correctly ossify during childhood, was upbeat about his progress after his loss to Harris.
—Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
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The veteran sharpshooter missed all of training camp, preseason and Detroit’s first 12 games while recovering from a left navicular fracture.
—Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2022
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The shoe’s got to fit right here, over the navicular bone.
—James B. Stewart, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
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Pelluer broke the navicular bone on his left foot – that’s the bone on the inner side of the foot just above the arch and the injury will require surgery.
—Stefanie Loh, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2017
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Warren played in four games all of last season because of a stress fracture in the navicular bone of his left foot.
—David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2021
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The Rockies moved Gray to the disabled list Friday because of a broken navicular bone in the middle of his left foot.
—Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
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Robinson will miss the rest of this season and needs surgery after a CT scan revealed a stress fracture on the navicular bone in his foot.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
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Warren appeared in only four games last season — the Pacers were 3-1 in those games — the last on Dec. 29, due to a stress fracture in the navicular bone in his left foot.
—Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2021
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Tuesday to repair a fractured navicular bone in his left foot, the team announced.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
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The center had missed the previous two seasons because of navicular bone surgeries on his right foot.
—Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 25 May 2017
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