How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun
  • She fell and damaged some cartilage in her knee.
  • How many boomers have that kind of cartilage left in their joints?
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
  • It had long been thought that cartilage, once gone, cannot grow back.
    — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The meniscus is the disk of cartilage that sits in your knee joint.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Put your thumb on the right nostril where the nose bone meets cartilage.
    — Kim Weeks, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Stem cells, she was told, could regrow the cartilage in her knee.
    — AZCentral.com, 12 June 2021
  • The cartilage is the part that covers the ends of your bones that form the joint.
    — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 1 May 2025
  • Many places don’t even serve them because they are strewn with bone and cartilage.
    — Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The meniscus is a piece of cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The long layoff is to allow the labrums and the cartilage time to heal.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • His doctor told him that so much lifting had worn down the cartilage in his spine.
    — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Remove the skin and guts, so that just the meat and cartilage remain.
    — Ellie Rushing, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
  • The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that serves as a shock absorber for the knee joint.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The claws will often have pieces of cartilage, so be sure to check and remove them.
    — Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
  • Those plants impart a greenish hue to their cartilage and fat, but not the shell.
    — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • With luck, the pincer will come free and bring with it the cartilage within the claw.
    — House Beautiful, 20 July 2012
  • Much of what scientist know of these fish comes from teeth, jaws and some skull cartilage.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Our knuckle joints are composed of two bones capped with cartilage.
    — Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2026
  • When the cartilage cap at the end of your bones wears thin, this is known as osteoarthritis.
    — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Surgeons then moved skin from her scalp and cartilage from her ear to help close the enormous gap.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 11 Sep. 2017
  • These are areas of cartilage at the ends of long bones that allow the bones to grow longer and wider.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Not all fish have bones — sharks have skeletons made of cartilage — and only bony fish form fish rings.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Helpful for joint support and is found in cartilage.
    — Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 29 May 2026
  • By chance, a scan revealed an issue in the cartilage of her pubic arch.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The labrum is a ring of cartilage that helps stabilize the shoulder joint.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Follow the breastbone to carve the breast, using the cartilage as a guide for your knife.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Glucosamine is an amino acid that helps protect and rebuild cartilage in the joints.
    — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Like any other cartilage piercing, the tragus takes about three to six months to heal.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 12 July 2022
  • The piercing goes through the innermost cartilage fold of the ear, above the ear canal.
    — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The other thing here is the presence of cartilage in these structures.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022

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