How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun

• She fell and damaged some cartilage in her knee.
• Shark skeletons are made of cartilage, which does not fossilize as well as bone — so it is rarely preserved.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2020
• But the effects of these changes on sharks, which lack both shells and bony skeletons (shark skeletons are made of cartilage), have been less clear.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2019
• Preserved cartilage can only be found in a few select locations around the world.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2020
• Embedded in the walls of the cave were parts of the head of an ancient shark, including teeth, the lower jaw and skull cartilage.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
• Such parts could include blood vessels, meniscus cartilage, and other minor parts.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 2020
• Lamb is out with a season-ending left leg ACL and cartilage tear and thigh fracture.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 3 Mar. 2020
• Doctors told him his knee needed cartilage replacement.
  — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• The purpose of his mid-October surgery was to repair cartilage that serves as natural padding in the knee joint.
  — Brett Martel, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Another team is developing a working meniscus, a thick piece of cartilage that sits between the thigh bone and shinbone.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 2020
• The whole chicken gets broken down, the breasts are set safely to the side (phew!), and the legs get returned to the pot along with the cartilage-rich wings that provide the soup with body.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2020
• The reports say the president has spondylosis, a condition that causes the spine to degenerate from wear and tear on cartilage and bones.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 10 July 2024
• And junior forward Sterling Manley had season-ending surgery to repair cartilage in his knee.
  — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Fossils of shark skeletons are rare because cartilage does not typically survive fossilization.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 29 Jan. 2020
• One of the most sought after nutrients in bone broth, and it’s modern derivatives, is collagen—an essential component in both skin and cartilage.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2020
• He was picked to step in for Ralph Sampson after the Houston big man tore cartilage in his knee about a week before the game in 1987.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 13 Feb. 2020
• The paper published in National Science Review takes a close look at skull shards that would have been made of soft cartilage, instead of bone, in the young dinosaurs.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
• Two cartilage cells were supposedly found linked together and material that resembles a cell nucleus was also spotted.
  — Fox News, 4 Mar. 2020
• The meniscus is the disk of cartilage that sits in your knee joint.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• How many boomers have that kind of cartilage left in their joints?
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that serves as a shock absorber for the knee joint.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
• It had long been thought that cartilage, once gone, cannot grow back.
  — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• Pull the skin and cartilage off the knobby end of the drumstick and clean it up with a knife or kitchen scissors.
  — Allie Morris, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• Stem cells, she was told, could regrow the cartilage in her knee.
  — AZCentral.com, 12 June 2021
• Mike Bites ears have a bite mark at the top of the gummy, right where Tyson took off a piece of Holyfield's cartilage.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber for the knee joint — the bigger the person, the bigger the strain.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2021
• The labrum is a ring of cartilage that helps stabilize the shoulder joint.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
• The thinning of the cartilage also narrows the space between the bones.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
• The other thing here is the presence of cartilage in these structures.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024