How to Use stress fracture in a Sentence

stress fracture

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  • The gymnast developed a stress fracture in her ankle.
  • Jung, the Rangers’ best prospect, missed the first five weeks of the season with a stress fracture in his foot.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 22 June 2021
  • The most common injuries were of the knee and foot stress fractures.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 May 2018
  • Maya Buchwald, who dealt with stress fractures to her shins in the past, paced the Sea Kings.
    — Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 5 Oct. 2019
  • In 2021 Jung missed half the season with a stress fracture in his left foot.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Lots of stuff in the fall injury-wise, and then of course in the spring -- two ACLs, kneecap, a back, a stress fracture.
    — Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 8 June 2021
  • Red Sox lefty Chris Sale has a stress fracture in his rib cage and will miss the start of the 2022 season.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2022
  • White missed all of 2015 with a stress fracture to his left tibia.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2017
  • A year ago, Stephens sat out the U.S. Open because of what turned out to be a stress fracture in her foot.
    — Howard Fendrich, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The next season, while Diop was sidelined with a stress fracture, the team went 13-17.
    — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2019
  • Smith has missed the last nine games over a month, nursing a stress fracture in her left foot.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This time on the mend from a stress fracture in his right rib cage, Sale is in a different spot.
    — Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
  • LeVert, coming off a stress fracture in his back, missed the first six games.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Last year, the script called for Zawacki to sit out all season with a stress fracture in his left leg.
    — Rich Mayor, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Rollins was held out of summer league because of a stress fracture in his right foot.
    — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Verdugo missed the end of the 2019 season — his rookie year with the Dodgers — because of a stress fracture in his back.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
  • Tried to run a half marathon on what turned out to be an existing stress fracture.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • There were the injuries, including a femoral stress fracture that forced her to drop out of the 2012 Olympic marathon less than three miles in.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Turner missed the final 38 games of last season with a stress fracture in his left foot.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The diagnosis was a stress fracture in the fibula in the lower portion of the right leg.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The loss of forward Isaiah Livers to a stress fracture in his right foot will hurt the Wolverines' chances.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Hurd has been sidelined since Aug. 19 with a stress fracture in his back, Shanahan said.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • There are two words a runner never wants to hear: stress fracture.
    — Christine Yu, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2018
  • RHP Griffin Canning will miss the rest of the season due to a lower back stress fracture.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
  • But a patella stress fracture caused him to miss training camp.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But, despite a recent stress fracture in his back and surgery to repair a bone in his right foot, the Sixers took the risk.
    — Sarah Todd, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
  • Kaleb Brown played two games in November before he was done for the year with a stress fracture.
    — Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
  • Appel was playing on a stress fracture and went 0-for-12.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021
  • There is some good news; the initial injury was called a stress fracture in his left fibula.
    — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
  • And starting center Mitchell Robinson has not played since sustaining a stress fracture in his left ankle on Dec. 8.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024

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