shinbone

Example Sentences

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Vonn suffered a complex fracture in her left tibia or shinbone, the larger and stronger of the two bones in the lower leg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

The condition, which strikes many young athletes, causes painful inflammation of the growth plate just above the shinbone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Croatia international Gvardiol, 23, recently had surgery after breaking his shinbone in the 1-1 draw with Chelsea, while Portugal centre-back Dias, 28, is out for about four to six weeks with a hamstring injury.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

In 1994, Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and her team found more than 80 fossils of teeth, jaws, a partial arm, and shinbone at two sites near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

And looked helpless like a shinbone, or a tiny speck of black on the Queen Elizabeth roses, or film on the eye of a dead goldfish.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison