How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun
Definition of cartilagenext
  • 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
  • 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, 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
  • Protein is one of the key building blocks of muscles, cartilage, bones, and skin.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • By this point, the cartilage between the bones has worn away, causing the bones to rub together.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 5 June 2024
  • Then, the squirrel would either strip the fur from the vole to expose cartilage, meat and organs, or tear the meat directly out from the torso.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The researchers also confirmed that abundant lipid droplets form in human cartilage cells grown in the lab from embryonic stem cells.
    — New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025

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