How to Use collarbone in a Sentence

collarbone

noun
  • The carving is of her on her deathbed, and it is sunk up to her collarbones in his front lawn.
    Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • The blade itself was severed, the jagged edge dipping toward his collarbone.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • But Ewan hit the deck at the end of Stage 3 and broke his collarbone.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • The tips of her brunette waves fell a bit past her collarbone.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Devin Funchess broke his collarbone and was done for the year.
    Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Because there is good meat around the collarbone and in the cheeks.
    Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In 2021, the Texas Tech star suffered a broken collarbone in the fourth game of the year.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The joint is the meeting point between the collarbone and the breastbone.
    Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The player who, say, broke his collarbone yet stayed in the game was a hero.
    James Dunn, Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Down the collarbone, the new black jerseys house three pink stripes which stop midway to the sleeves.
    Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Try a style with smaller pearls that hit just at the collarbone.
    Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 14 June 2022
  • Hold the bar in your palms so that the bar rests above your collarbone on the meaty portions of your shoulders.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Hogan, the golfer, broke his collarbone, pelvis, left ankle and a rib.
    Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The heavy pendant hung between the ends of his collarbones.
    Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • Last year, in the second game of the season, Fontaine broke his collarbone.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The second victim, a 24-year-old male, was stabbed once on the left collarbone.
    Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The mass, nestled just under the skin above my collarbone, was the size of a quarter.
    Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, Kristin Van Ogtrop, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Will James broke his collarbone in the first half of last week’s win against Baker.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The neckline rises to just above the collarbone with a slight scoop that leaves some skin exposed to stay cool in the heat.
    Shea Simmons, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
  • Hamlin punched Craig in the face and grabbed her by the shoulder and collarbone, police said.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The top of the bibs rises almost to his collarbone, to help keep the shoulder straps from slipping off.
    Nick Heil, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Fox topped the sheer dress with a leather jacket cropped just below the collarbone and low-heeled black sock booties.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The rapper is wearing her hair in a cute bob that hits her collarbone and flips out a bit for a retro vibe.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Broke his collarbone early in the season last year, so this year means even more to him.
    oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Stand facing a wall and place the ball under your collarbone at the sternum.
    Kelly Dinardo New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Golfer Ben Hogan broke his collarbone, pelvis, left ankle and a rib.
    Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Jean could see the shape of her hand beneath the blanket picking at a dry patch of skin around her collarbone.
    Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Diah styled this unit with a side part and bumped the ends inward, making the tips graze her collarbone.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 18 July 2023
  • There is advanced spreading in stage IIIC: the cancer has spread to the chest wall, skin of the breast, 10 or more lymph nodes and the collarbone.
    Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Sam, 54, posed next to her Kick-Ass beau with his name inked on her collarbone.
    Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 1 June 2021

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