How to Use tibia in a Sentence

tibia

noun

• The tibia, sometimes called the shinbone, is the frontal of the two bones in the lower leg.
  — Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
• The researchers studied injuries to the upper part of the leg, the femur, and the lower part, the tibia.
  — Will Dunham, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
• Bowen had broken the tibia and fibula in his right leg.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• On May 17 against the Dodgers, Gordon fouled a pitch off his right leg and fractured his right tibia.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• His tibia and fibula were fractured and bones broke in his foot.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Specifically, a break in the tibia, the larger of the two bones in your lower leg.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
• It is wrapped in the patellar tendon, which connects the quadriceps muscle of the thigh to the tibia below the knee joint.
  — Jonathan Cluett, Md, Verywell Health, 9 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Those injuries were stabilized with a rod in the tibia.
  — Stefanie Dazio and Doug Ferguson, Chron, 24 Feb. 2021
• There was damage to his optic nerves and a broken right tibia.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 5 June 2021
• So my surgeon had to straighten my tibia, and now my left foot points straight ahead while my right foot still is duck-like.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2022
• Once there, Wieber sustained a tough stress fracture on her tibia.
  — April Wallace, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2022
• Kreiss-Tomkins struck some trees in an open field of snow near the Glen Alps trailhead, breaking his tibia and fibula, the two bones in the lower leg.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2022
• The redshirt freshman King broke his right tibia in Week 2 against Colorado, and could return in a few weeks.
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Sep. 2021
• Different than a tibia or something that would be a much longer time frame.
  — William Guillory, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• If an injury was near the femur rather than the tibia, ants would amputate.
  — Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 3 July 2024
• Michelle Gisin, a two-time Olympic champion, hurt her right tibia and won’t race again this weekend.
  — Andrew Dampf, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• But his fibula and tibia bones kept growing, pushing against the skin that had grown around what remained of his limb.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Zach Calzada has had a rough time taking over the offense since Haynes King went out with a fractured tibia in Week 2.
  — Casey Stavenhagen, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2021
• Cederberg was shot in his hip, wrist, tibia, triceps, torso and twice under his arm, the memo said.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 19 July 2017
• Wingnut went down awkwardly, and a crack could be heard in every part of the arena: Wingnut’s left tibia and fibula.
  — Rich Cohen, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2018
• He was shot a second time between his fibula and tibia.
  — cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
• But a stress reaction in his left tibia cost him last season.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018
• A stress fracture in his left tibia cost him his rookie season.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
• Smith suffered a compound fracture in his leg in 2018, which broke his tibia and fibula.
  — Emmanuel Morgan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2021
• What made the Olympics even more challenging was Moceanu’s tibia (a.k.a.
  — Christine Yu, SELF, 17 July 2024
• Aidan Hutchinson, who entered Week 6 with a league-leading 7.5 sacks, was carted off with a broken tibia in his team’s win against the Dallas Cowboys.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
• Three major high ankle ligaments hold the two lower leg bones, the tibia and fibula, together above the ankle, which then keeps the ankle bone in place.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024