How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun

• She fell and damaged some cartilage in her knee.
• 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
• Remove the skin and guts, so that just the meat and cartilage remain.
  — Ellie Rushing, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• 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
• The claws will often have pieces of cartilage, so be sure to check and remove them.
  — Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
• 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 cartilage was showing wear and tear that just wasn’t common for a 19-year-old.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 July 2019
• 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
• This deformity can lead to a tearing of a cartilage in the hip joint called the labrum.
  — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
• Many places don’t even serve them because they are strewn with bone and cartilage.
  — Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• That piercing sits in the ear cartilage across the lower ear canal from the standard tragus.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 12 July 2022
• Antlers clacked on antlers, cartilage snapped, and the breath of three thousand animals rose over the fence.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• His doctor told him that so much lifting had worn down the cartilage in his spine.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Protein is one of the key building blocks of muscles, cartilage, bones, and skin.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• By this point, the cartilage between the bones has worn away, causing the bones to rub together.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 5 June 2024
• Much of what scientist know of these fish comes from teeth, jaws and some skull cartilage.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
• And then had an MRI which showed a significant loss of cartilage and a need for surgery.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2020
• The lizard has a structure made of bone and cartilage originating from the throat that supports the frill.
  — Matthew A. Brown, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• The labrum is a ring of cartilage that encircles the hip joint socket, helping protect the joint and hold it in place.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• By chance, a scan revealed an issue in the cartilage of her pubic arch.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
• Stromberg’s health and a change in regime — the Commanders replaced the front office and coaching staff — put him in limbo, and at the end of training camp an MRI revealed torn cartilage in the same knee.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2024
• The hit also tore his lateral cruciate ligament, shredded the cartilage in his knee and tore the hamstring off the bone.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025