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
• With luck, the pincer will come free and bring with it the cartilage within the claw.
  — House Beautiful, 20 July 2012
• 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
• Put your thumb on the right nostril where the nose bone meets cartilage.
  — Kim Weeks, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Remove the skin and guts, so that just the meat and cartilage remain.
  — Ellie Rushing, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• Follow the breastbone to carve the breast, using the cartilage as a guide for your knife.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 14 Mar. 2017
• Follow the breastbone to carve the breast, using the cartilage as a guide for your knife.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 19 Feb. 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
• When the cartilage cap at the end of your bones wears thin, this is known as osteoarthritis.
  — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The labrum is a cartilage ring that follows and cushions the outside rim of the socket of a hip joint.
  — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Surgeons then moved skin from her scalp and cartilage from her ear to help close the enormous gap.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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
• During embryonic development, the cartilage of fish gills and the cartilage of the mammalian external ear arise from the same cells.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
• The bones are stacked on top of each other, separated by spongy cartilage called intervertebral discs.
  — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2025