How to Use tibia in a Sentence

tibia

noun
Definition of tibianext
  • The tibia, sometimes called the shinbone, is the frontal of the two bones in the lower leg.
    — Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers studied injuries to the upper part of the leg, the femur, and the lower part, the tibia.
    — Will Dunham, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
  • Bowen had broken the tibia and fibula in his right leg.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • On May 17 against the Dodgers, Gordon fouled a pitch off his right leg and fractured his right tibia.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • His tibia and fibula were fractured and bones broke in his foot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Finegan broke his fibula and tibia in his right leg on Sept. 7 in a game against Penn State.
    — Jenna West, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Specifically, a break in the tibia, the larger of the two bones in your lower leg.
    — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
  • It is wrapped in the patellar tendon, which connects the quadriceps muscle of the thigh to the tibia below the knee joint.
    — Jonathan Cluett, Md, Verywell Health, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And on the slopes of one of the sand spits, a femur, fibula, and tibia (the bones of the leg) were found bundled together with two white stones.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • But it was limited to four measurements of the skull and three of long bones — the tibia, humerus and radius.
    — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Those injuries were stabilized with a rod in the tibia.
    — Stefanie Dazio and Doug Ferguson, Chron, 24 Feb. 2021
  • There was damage to his optic nerves and a broken right tibia.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 5 June 2021
  • So my surgeon had to straighten my tibia, and now my left foot points straight ahead while my right foot still is duck-like.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Once there, Wieber sustained a tough stress fracture on her tibia.
    — April Wallace, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Kreiss-Tomkins struck some trees in an open field of snow near the Glen Alps trailhead, breaking his tibia and fibula, the two bones in the lower leg.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The redshirt freshman King broke his right tibia in Week 2 against Colorado, and could return in a few weeks.
    — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Different than a tibia or something that would be a much longer time frame.
    — William Guillory, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • If an injury was near the femur rather than the tibia, ants would amputate.
    — Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 3 July 2024
  • Michelle Gisin, a two-time Olympic champion, hurt her right tibia and won’t race again this weekend.
    — Andrew Dampf, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But his fibula and tibia bones kept growing, pushing against the skin that had grown around what remained of his limb.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Zach Calzada has had a rough time taking over the offense since Haynes King went out with a fractured tibia in Week 2.
    — Casey Stavenhagen, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Cederberg was shot in his hip, wrist, tibia, triceps, torso and twice under his arm, the memo said.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 19 July 2017
  • Wingnut went down awkwardly, and a crack could be heard in every part of the arena: Wingnut’s left tibia and fibula.
    — Rich Cohen, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2018
  • He was shot a second time between his fibula and tibia.
    — cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
  • But a stress reaction in his left tibia cost him last season.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018
  • A stress fracture in his left tibia cost him his rookie season.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • Smith suffered a compound fracture in his leg in 2018, which broke his tibia and fibula.
    — Emmanuel Morgan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2021
  • What made the Olympics even more challenging was Moceanu’s tibia (a.k.a.
    — Christine Yu, SELF, 17 July 2024
  • Fractures tend to happen in the fibula or tibia bones in your lower leg, making walking on the affected leg painful.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 7 July 2024
  • That means tibia injuries, must be treated more quickly, Kronauer says.
    — Byhumberto Basilio, science.org, 2 July 2024

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