How to Use tendon in a Sentence
tendon
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He was scheduled for the surgery to repair the tendon the next week.
— Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022 -
My throat was raw, and the Achilles’ tendon in my right leg started to ache.
— Paul Tough, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024 -
Instead, Archibald played 34 games for the Nets and blew out an Achilles’ tendon.
— New York Times, 11 Apr. 2021 -
Eloy Jiménez has been on the IL since April 24 with a torn right hamstring tendon.
— Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2022 -
The dogs bit the man’s face and ripped his leg flesh down to muscle and tendon, police said.
— chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021 -
In the statement, de la Rocha said that only 8% of the tendon was intact.
— Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Grandal has been out since July 6 with a torn tendon in his left knee.
— Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021 -
The eight-time Pro Bowler missed all of 2020 with a dislodged ankle tendon.
— Tom Withers, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021 -
And then ace Lance Lynn suffered a torn tendon in his right knee and will be out six to eight weeks.
— Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022 -
That is when a small chunk of bone attached to a tendon or ligament gets pulled away from the main part of the bone.
— Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2021 -
The flexor tendon on the back stretches and then rebounds.
— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021 -
Zach Triner tore a tendon in the ring finger on his left hand in the Bucs’ season-opener.
— Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 23 Nov. 2021 -
Bull suffered tendon damage and had chipped bones in her wrist and hand.
— David Williams, CNN, 17 Aug. 2021 -
Molina hadn't played since April 26 because of a strained tendon in his right foot.
— David Solomon, Star Tribune, 8 May 2021 -
The impact causes a tendon in the leg to lengthen, pulling wires on the underside of each toe.
— Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021 -
The damaged elbow tendon kept Bergeron out of the lineup for four games in March.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022 -
And Alvarez did all that on knees that had 12 tendon tears between them.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021 -
Tyquan Lewis suffered a patellar tendon injury and will miss the rest of the season.
— Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2021 -
The torn tendon was painful, but people could still visit.
— Belinda Luscombe, Time, 17 Apr. 2021 -
Jiménez went back to the left-field wall, jumped and reached his arm and glove over the fence, rupturing his left pectoral tendon.
— Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2021 -
Dull or sharp pain, sometimes stiffness, along the back of the tendon but typically close to the heel.
— Ashley Mateo, Health, 11 Feb. 2023 -
That surgery involved grafting part of his left patellar tendon to fix the tear.
— Stephen Whyno, ajc, 23 Aug. 2022 -
A week later, Jackson tore the patellar tendon in his right knee against Seattle late in the first half.
— Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023 -
The Achilles tendon is the attachment between the calf muscle and the bottom of the foot which allows for the motion of pushing off.
— Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2023 -
As a result, these shoes force your feet, ankles, Achilles’ tendons, and calves to work harder.
— Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2023 -
Lifting puts a lot of pressure on the tendons that connect your wrist and upper arm to the bones in your elbow joint.
— Oluseun Olufade, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024 -
But then Oladipo tore his right quadriceps tendon in January of 2019, and nothing has been the same since.
— Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2022 -
Simply rising up and down on the ball of the foot works the outer leg, and forearm side planks strengthen the tendon under the arch as well as the leg muscles.
— Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 30 July 2022 -
Nearby, a rock formation that looks like stretching tendons wrap around tiered ponds with spouting geysers.
— Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024 -
Across the franchise, Knoxville has also suffered an orbital blowout fracture, a torn tendon and urethra, a herniated disc, and many broken bones.
— Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
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