How to Use sacrum in a Sentence

sacrum

noun

• The cancer, already at Stage 4, had metastasized to her sacrum, a bone at the base of her spine.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 16 Feb. 2019
• Chris poured water over Lisa’s belly and pressed a sock filled with warm rice on her sacrum.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 1 May 2018
• The last bones to go, the ilium and sacrum (the big hip bones atop the skeleton) are the heaviest bone structure.
  — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• My sacrum attachment and / or glute max area got very sore towards the end of workout.
  — Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019
• The ancient whale’s hip was tightly attached to the sacrum, the triangular bone at the base of the spine that stabilizes the pelvis.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2019
• The back pain that initially caused her to postpone the first half of her concert tour, has turned out to be breast cancer that has metastasized to the sacrum.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 May 2017
• O’Donnell broke his right foot in two places, suffered four fractures to his pelvic bone and shattered his sacrum, a small bone located near the bottom of the spine.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022
• Cancer spread through her body like the roots of an aggressive weed, invading her ribs, her lymph nodes, liver, the bone of her left arm, the bone of her sacrum.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2018
• The sacrum consists of two vertebrae that form a large triangular bone at the bottom of the spine, acting as a wedge between the hip bones.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• The pelvis, too, has a tendency to be shown warped and curvy as if combined with the sacrum into a single semi-circular unit.
  — Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
• Young Shaylie had suffered a broken jaw in two places, a broken neck in two places, a broken femur, a fractured sacrum and a brain injury.
  — Fox News, 14 July 2022
• Newton-John announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer which had metastasized to the sacrum in May 2017.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
• The protagonist grows a scruff of coarse hair above her sacrum and sniffs out bunnies in her yard; playtime with her son involves licking and biting.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• In May 2017, the singer-songwriter and actress announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer that had metastasized to the sacrum.
  — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
• In May, doctors diagnosed Newton-John with breast cancer that had metastasized to the sacrum.
  — Nicole Sands, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• In 2017, with her beloved husband John Easterling by her side, Olivia revealed the news that her breast cancer had returned and metastasized to her sacrum.
  — Nancy Gould Chuda, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2022
• On May 30, Olivia Newton-John announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time in her life—and this time the cancer had metastasized to her sacrum.
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 7 June 2017
• O’Donnell suffered a broken sacrum, the triangular bone between the hip bones, a broken right foot and too many fractures of his pelvic region for the doctors to even count, his wife said.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• Acanthostega is also the first tetrapod with a sacrum, strengthening the pelvis-hind limb connection.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
• Smith suffered a fractured leg, a broken pelvis and sacrum and damaged internal organs.
  — Karina Elwood, orlandosentinel.com, 7 June 2019
• The tight fusion of vertebrae at the hip-spine connection—called the sacrum—also became unfused and more flexible.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
• In the past, surgeons would have considered amputating one of Ms. Secor’s legs, given that the tumor had spread to the bone and nerves of her sacrum and was encroaching on her hip socket.
  — Aili McConnon, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• The bullet entered her backside and went through her abdomen, fracturing her sacrum, said her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein.
  — Karen Zraick, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Beason has dealt with the painful foot condition plantar fasciitis, a torn hamstring, and a stress fracture to her sacrum, the triangular bone in the lower back located between the hips.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Metastasis is the development of secondary malignant growths from a primary site of cancer, while the sacrum is the bone located between the two hipbones of the pelvis.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
• According to Owen, the sacroiliac joints just beneath your spine that connect to the sacrum are similarly vulnerable, along with your wing-like hip bones.
  — Holly Lebowitz Rossi, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2018
• His scalp and liver were lacerated, his femur, sacrum and multiple ribs were broken.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2018
• Athletes have increased bone density by 2 to 5 percent over a one-year period, and the number of bone stress injuries has decreased, including high-risk injuries like the femoral neck, pelvis, and sacrum.
  — Christine Yu, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2018
• A therapist gently manipulates the skull and sacrum (base of the spine), soft tissue and the area around the spine to improve respiration and help the room stop spinning, finishing with a classic massage to ease clenched muscles.
  — Meirav Devash, CNN, 15 May 2017
• Ab rotation The human spine is composed of five sections: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum and coccyx.
  — Philly.com, 27 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024