How to Use frontal lobe in a Sentence

frontal lobe

noun
  • All three of them are on the side of the left frontal lobe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
  • As a 25-year-old, now proud owner of a frontal lobe.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Some of the projectiles were lodged in the frontal lobe of his brain.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2024
  • That control lies in the frontal lobe of the opposite side of the brain.
    — Suzanne O’Sullivan, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Tyson suffered a brain bleed and damage to his frontal lobe from the beating.
    — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Again, frontal lobe not developed.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Part of Caleb's frontal lobe was removed to relieve swelling in his brain.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Doctors removed the baseball-sized growth from her frontal lobe.
    — al, 22 May 2022
  • The mass sat on her right frontal lobe, close to an area that controls the fine movements of the left hand.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The fundraiser wrote that the fight left the girl with a skull fracture and damage to her frontal lobe.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • One man who suffered frontal lobe damage had a sudden urge to hoard bullets.
    — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The disease quite literally shrinks the frontal lobe of the brain.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2022
  • Perceiving any kind of perfume made my frontal lobe twitch and my legs walk out of coffee shops.
    — Melissa Kenny, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Teens don’t have fully formed frontal lobes, the part of the brain that controls impulse and judgment.
    — Maida Lynn Chen, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But his frontal lobe—where all the fun stuff and the action was, the laughs and the curiosity—was fine.
    — The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
  • She’d been shot in the forehead, where the bullet pierced her frontal lobe and exited the top of her skull.
    — Amber Hunt, Cincinnati.com, 19 May 2020
  • These are kids, primarily teenagers, whose frontal lobes aren’t yet fully-formed.
    — Deborah Alexander, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • Children have to learn how to lie; people with certain types of frontal lobe injuries may not be able to do it.
    — Theodor Schaarschmidt, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • Each muscle is controlled by motor neurons that reside in the brain in the frontal lobe.
    — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2012
  • And in my lack of frontal lobe development, that never would have occurred to me.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • The complication caused swelling of her brain tissue and a lesion on her frontal lobe.
    — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Venus and Pluto’s clash pushes someone front and center in your frontal lobe.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • At that point in your life your frontal lobe isn't fully formed and your idea of self isn't fully actualized.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
  • Because the injury was confined to the right side of Arik's brain, mostly the right frontal lobe.
    — Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
  • In fact, many teens seem to have deep concerns over AI chatbots rotting their frontal lobes.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The frontal lobe is also the brain area injured in one of the most famous cases in neuroscience.
    — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
  • However, due to its placement in the left frontal lobe of my brain, the resection had left me unable to speak.
    — Danielle Soviero, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2022
  • The crash damaged a part of his brain, the right frontal lobe, which affected his ability to feel emotions.
    — Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 11 Apr. 2025
  • In particular, the frontal lobe of the brain is where impulses are controlled.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • The brain disorder is caused by degeneration of the brain's frontal lobe.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023

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