How to Use fibula in a Sentence

fibula

noun
  • Cody Bellinger broke his fibula the first week of the season.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
  • His tibia and fibula were fractured and bones broke in his foot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Cookus suffered a broken fibula on the hit that knocked him from the game.
    — Barry Werner, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
  • Scar sunk his teeth into her right calf, breaking her fibula.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • The tibia is the shin bone, and the fibula is the slimmer bone next to it.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Frech was born without a knee and fibula in his left leg and fingers on his left hand.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021
  • My fibula had pierced through my skin and had to be hammered and screwed back into place.
    — Sarah Gad, Marie Claire, 15 Mar. 2019
  • The fibula, the outer, smaller bone, was gone.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The feature in question is the fibula, one of two bones inside the leg.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2016
  • Carr missed the end of last season after breaking his fibula.
    — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The tibia and fibula form the socket for the ankle joint, while the talus is the ball.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The smaller bone in his lower right leg, the fibula, was broken.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2023
  • There is some good news; the initial injury was called a stress fracture in his left fibula.
    — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
  • Daniel Jones is playing through a fractured fibula.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Bellinger has been out since April 5 with a hairline fracture in his left fibula.
    — Arkansas Online, 29 May 2021
  • The fibula, also called the calf bone, is a long bone that runs next to the larger tibia bone, or shin bone.
    — Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2022
  • Levens played again in Week 2 but then missed the next nine weeks with a fractured fibula.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2021
  • Then in April, Bellinger suffered a hairline crack in his left fibula.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Pollard underwent surgery for the high-ankle sprain but not the left fibula, which should heal on its own.
    — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In Week 12, Jones fractured his left fibula.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Surgery will be to fix the ligament to hold the ankle together as well as to plate the fibula.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Cody Bellinger, who has a hairline fracture of his left fibula and there is no timetable for his return.
    — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But his fibula and tibia bones kept growing, pushing against the skin that had grown around what remained of his limb.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Most ankle fractures occur in the fibula.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Woods sustained open fractures, in several places, of the tibia and the fibula in his right leg.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The diagnosis was a stress fracture in the fibula in the lower portion of the right leg.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Alex Killorn, who broke a fibula blocking a shot in Game 1 of the final.
    — oregonlive, 8 July 2021
  • Tingley broke both the tibia and fibula in his left leg and the original timeline was not promising.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • However, a fibula fracture derailed him last year.
    — Mike Barner, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Godwin has remained out due to his lingering fibula injury.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025

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