How to Use femur in a Sentence

femur

noun
  • But the bones – femur, rib, jaw – take her breath away each time.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 June 2025
  • The bone is believed to be a femur.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The bone is believed to be a femur.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • By the way, the femur is the correct bone.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Both hands were fractured, as well as his wrist, femur, and foot.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The pair crashed down a full flight of stairs, and her baby broke her femur.
    — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Her left femur snapped at such a sharp angle that the jagged bone ripped through her skin.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024
  • The crash left the child with a brain lesion and a broken femur.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Dunning nearly broke his femur at the point of the hit.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Use a boning knife and cut along the femur before pulling it out.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The bullet lodged in his femur, and Gomez dropped to the ground.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • One of my open femur fractures was mid-thigh down to the knee and over the top of the knee.
    — Bethany Levrier, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
  • As for Liam, the teen fractured his femurs and lost his left arm.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • The femoral head is part of the femur at the top of the thigh that connects the leg to the pelvis.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 18 Aug. 2025
  • One was part of a femur of a four-legged plant-eater called Scelidosaurus.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Her weight snapped the boy’s femur (thigh) bone, Rivarde said.
    — Michelle Hunter, nola.com, 26 June 2019
  • The arms were placed to rest along their torsos, and their hands were placed near their pelvis or femurs.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • His foot, full of nerves still fried from when the bullet shattered his femur, is aching.
    — Caroline Anders, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Stewart fractured the mid-shaft of her femur and the femoral neck, or hip, on the same leg.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The force of the blow snapped his femur and smashed his internal organs.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This end contains the femur and pelvic bone, which can be difficult to carve around.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The dog had found a woman’s right pelvic bone and femur, officials said.
    — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • This end contains the femur and pelvic bone, which can be challenging to carve around.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Thicker bones, like the femur and humerus, tend to better withstand heat.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Hall, 31, suffered a wound to the left leg that fractured his femur.
    — oregonlive.com, 26 June 2019
  • The femur weighed roughly 50 pounds and measured four feet long.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the carvings on the femur bones depict a man holding a jade mask just like the one in the tomb.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The arms were resting alongside their torsos, while their hands were placed near the pelvis or femurs.
    — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The femur’s shape also gives us clues about what the world was like when Pachystruthio was alive.
    — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 27 June 2019
  • Merin said Thimmhardy suffered a fracture on her right femur and is no longer able to climb stairs.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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