fracture
Example Sentences
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Her post was from the Italian hospital where Vonn underwent four operations on the leg she fractured in a horrific crash at the Winter Olympics.
From Barron's
Like Sun Ra’s music, the motion picture is deliberately fractured, the virtues to be found in the departures from the expected, the familiar, the comfortable.
The crash had left her with a complex tibia fracture.
From Los Angeles Times
It all culminated in Tuesday’s Season 3 finale, which brought explosive revelations, the return of old habits and final fractures to the friend group.
From Los Angeles Times
As this molten rock pushed upward, it fractured surrounding rock layers, triggering thousands of earthquakes and tremors.
From Science Daily
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