How to Use clavicle in a Sentence

clavicle

noun
  • Gabriel has a huge growth on his clavicle but is terrified of surgery.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 13 Feb. 2022
  • There’s a little piece of meat under the clavicle of a duck that drives me nuts.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Evans broke his clavicle in Week 7.
    — Josh Buckhalter, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • He was shot once above his clavicle, with the bullet piercing his lung.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The bob just grazes her clavicle area for a gorgeous shoulder length.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The neck hole opens with the thinnest of seams, revealing the right amount of clavicle.
    — Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 8 May 2017
  • Until this spring, when spots of cancer showed up along his spine, ribs and clavicle.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • Brown was shot in the right cheek, the right clavicle and the left arm, court documents said.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2017
  • No skin was showing — no shoulders, no clavicle, no mid-drift.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Two weeks later the woman had surgery to take out the rib closest to her clavicle.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Sophie grabbed the taut bit of flesh between her chin and her clavicle and wiggled it around.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 June 2021
  • He had been hit in the thigh, finger, wrist, shoulder, clavicle and twice in the chest and twice in the abdomen.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2018
  • Right clavicle fracture; it will be stabilized with a plate.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • Connell’s clavicle-gracing chain isn’t the first to inspire breathy sighs.
    — Todd Plummer, WSJ, 10 June 2020
  • Two bullets hit Roston in the head; a third lodged below his left clavicle.
    — Katy Bergen, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • His right knee and both ankles were broken, his clavicle was broken and one of his ribs had pierced his liver.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • He has since been diagnosed with a broken clavicle.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The minimum for a clavicle fracture is a plate and six screws – with three screws on each side of the fracture.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The Berlin Painter drew clavicles with distinctive arcs that curled at the pit of the neck.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 23 July 2017
  • One woman broke her clavicle, ribs and a tooth, according to the complaint.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • There is an incision that is made and an insertion of a tube into the right clavicle.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • One in the dip between her clavicles, the other underneath her chin.
    — Josh Roiland, Longreads, 1 Jan. 1950
  • He was struck three times, suffering a broken clavicle.
    — Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The pursing deputy later fell and broke his clavicle, the sheriff's office said.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Foles broke his left clavicle on the team’s 10th offensive play of the season.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The animal dislodged the boy’s mandible, left a groove in his skull, broke his clavicle and left a bite mark on his right ankle.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Completely tore away from my clavicle and shoulder.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Two adjustable shoulder straps meet at your clavicle with a gold bar, connecting the suit’s fabric to the straps.
    — Maya Polton Updated, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Five or six hours worth of ultrasounds and CT scans revealed blood clots near his clavicle.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Her dark brown, almost-black strands are pulled to the very top of her head in a super high ponytail that cascades down just past her clavicle.
    — Addison Aloian, Allure, 18 Mar. 2022

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