How to Use labrum in a Sentence

labrum

noun
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  • The surgery will not fix the labrum but will fix the area around it to help ease the pain.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2019
  • Mayfield tore the labrum in Week 2 and was never the same.
    — WSJ, 12 June 2023
  • La’el Collins had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his hip.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The bone should be intact, but the labrum is likely torn.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Then in the opener at Iowa, Pugh tore the labrum in his right shoulder.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • This was my second labrum surgery, and not a lot of guys come back from that.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2022
  • Pictured here is the sixth piece, called the labrum, which funnels out blood.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Then in March, Carr tore his right labrum swinging a bat.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • Do the Browns want to bring him back in 2022 and see if most of his problems were due to the labrum injury?
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Reynolds came to LSU for the 2013 season and suffered a torn labrum that caused him to miss the season.
    — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 26 June 2017
  • The one that worked out well was a labrum and not a dislocation.
    — Matt Zenitz | Mzenitz@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The wild card here is Taron Vincent, who missed all of last season due to a torn labrum.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 9 June 2020
  • In 2019, Senzel tore his labrum in September and missed the end of the season.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 27 June 2021
  • Goalie Tuukka Rask has a torn labrum in his hip and will require surgery.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
  • What if Tuukka Rask hadn’t been playing through a torn labrum in his hip?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
  • Vincent missed the entire 2019 season due to a torn labrum.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Dixon played in just two games before having surgery on his labrum.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Mullen suffered a torn hip labrum against T.F. South in the second game of the football season.
    — Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The labrum usually tears off the bone and does not have the ability to heal itself.
    — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 17 July 2017
  • Thomas originally tore the labrum in his right hip in March 2017.
    — Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Wilson suffered a labrum tear in a Week 13 loss to the Chargers last season.
    — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
  • English, 32, had been feeling the affects of a torn labrum and a bone spur since his college days.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2022
  • 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
  • Dellinger tore his labrum as a sophomore and missed the basketball season and chose not to play last year.
    — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2020
  • In 2019, Lawrence got off to a slow start after his recovery from labrum surgery.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Then, the mosquito uses one stylet—the labrum—to prod around, seeking a blood vessel to pierce.
    — John Sass, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • ElAttrache also repaired a small tear in the back of the shoulder labrum.
    — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2019
  • But even that had its hardships, like the time her father slipped on a patch of ice in North Carolina and tore a labrum.
    — Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Behind the labrum, the mouth slit was also exquisitely preserved.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • In fact, Jackson played with a torn labrum in his shoulder after the season at Oregon, his father said.
    — Jordan D. Brown, Washington Post, 13 July 2024

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