How to Use vertebra in a Sentence

vertebra

noun

• The arches of the vertebrae of his spine haven’t closed.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2018
• The crash broke at least one of his vertebra and four ribs.
  — Fedor Zarkhin, OregonLive.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• The hands, feet and vertebrae were intact, and the skull was still there, but the rest had been picked clean.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• The arteries in the neck run through two vertebrae in the neck.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The toothlike bone keeps the C1 and C2 vertebrae from sliding apart and crushing the spine.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Ribs and vertebrae were spread out about 50 feet behind the skull.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
• The vertebra used in the new study was found at the Kem Kem fossil bed in Morocco.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2021
• The bullet damaged the 11th thoracic vertebra, the next to last counting down from the top.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• One of the gunshots struck Rome Shubert, the school’s star pitcher, in the back of the head, just missing his C1 vertebra.
  — Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 20 May 2018
• The researchers were also able to estimate blood flow to the brain, based on the skull and vertebrae.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Mar. 2020
• But this time the injury was not to the nerve sheath but to the nerve fiber, and after vertebra surgery, the prognosis was not good.
  — Susan Gubar, New York Times, 28 May 2020
• To come out of this pose, slowly roll up one vertebra at a time with your head being the last thing to come up.
  — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
• The fossil would turn out to include six neck vertebrae, part of the right shoulder blade, and most of the right forelimb.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
• Surgery revealed damage to her spinal cord, in the area below the T-6 vertebra.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• In modern human children, those vertebrae are fused around the ages of four to six.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• Next, tuck the tailbone and lift it back off the floor one vertebra at a time until the torso forms a straight line from shoulders to knees.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
• Columbo cut his head and cracked a cervical vertebra in the crash, records show.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The crash left Thompson with compressed vertebrae in his lower back, which had to be fused.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
• The third-year corner fractured a vertebra in his neck at the end of the 2019 regular season.
  — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• In most people, the spinal column is made up of 33 stacked vertebrae that house and protect the nerves of the spinal cord and the bundle of nerves that sits below it.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 15 May 2018
• Byrd asked if Grow wanted a full cervical spine – the vertebrae and tissue in the neck, just below the skull.
  — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Oct. 2017
• The dinosaur sample captures eight vertebrae from the middle or end of a long, thin tail.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2018
• My 84-year-old dad fell and broke the C-1 and C-2 vertebrae in his neck two days after Christmas the year before last, which should have killed him but didn't.
  — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 17 Jan. 2017
• The impact ripped a chunk of granite off the railing and left Keefe with a brain bleed and fractures to her skull, vertebrae, eye socket.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
• In 1990, the band’s bus crashed in the Pocono mountains, and Estefan sustained a broken vertebra in her back.
  — Alejandro De La Garza, Time, 20 June 2018
• At the top, inhale and hold your breath a few seconds, then exhale and slowly roll back down one vertebra at a time.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 20 May 2021
• First, there was the 1978 surgery to remove a ruptured disc and fuse two of the vertebrae in her lower spine, a procedure that helped her walk again.
  — Nick Maslow, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2019
• After the 24-foot fall shattered a vertebra, doctors told him he wouldn’t walk again.
  — Bruce Henderson, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• Each vertebra weighs more than 220 pounds, and its ribs measure nearly 5 feet long.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• The fossil itself is an incomplete skull with jaws, teeth and the topmost spinal vertebra.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024