How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun

• She fell and damaged some cartilage in her knee.
• The claws will often have pieces of cartilage, so be sure to check and remove them.
  — Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
• 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 injury was diagnosed as apophysitis, in which cartilage tore loose from a growth plate.
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2019
• My surgeon had to recreate the tip of my nose by cutting out a piece of my cartilage from my inner septum.
  — Athena Sobhan, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• Osteoarthritis develops over decades, as the wear and tear of aging removes cartilage.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
• The material could also potentially be used to grow new tendons, cartilage and teeth.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
• There’s also no definitive evidence stem cells and platelets can regrow lost cartilage, Fu said.
  — STAT, 20 June 2019
• There’s also no definitive evidence stem cells and platelets can regrow lost cartilage, Fu says.
  — Time, 19 June 2019
• This section is often removed and discarded because it is ridden with cartilage, and there was a lot of leftover rib tips back when Chicago had the stockyards.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• People are getting leafy branches permanently sketched on their cartilage, a cool alternative to your classic upper-ear stud.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 15 July 2019
• Golden State announced Looney re-aggravated his right 1st costal cartilage non-displaced fracture injury and would not return.
  — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 10 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• There’s been no timeline offered for captain Gabe Landeskog, who is into the 17th month of his rehab process after knee cartilage replacement surgery.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024