How to Use kneecap in a Sentence

kneecap

1 of 2 noun
  • There’d be a kneecap over there on the ground of my own that just fell off.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Team physicians were able to get his kneecap back in place on the field.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The biggest scars wind down her left leg on either side of the kneecap.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Aka patellofemoral pain syndrome, or pain around or behind the kneecap.
    — Ashley Mateo, Health, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Runner’s knee can feel like a dull, diffuse ache in and around the kneecap.
    — SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
  • My scabs, which are imprinted on my kneecaps, give me some street cred, at least to me.
    — Abby Ellin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
  • Her kneecap healed, but nerve tumors had formed in her leg, and the pain grew steadily worse.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • McCarthy will be lucky if his kneecaps aren’t bitten off.
    — Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That was a cheap shot, going for my weakest feature, my kneecaps.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There were two deep punctures behind the kneecap, with blood pouring out.
    — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Stop right before the kneecap and move your arms backward so that the roller moves towards your hips.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Boutin had dislocated his kneecap and would miss the rest of the season.
    — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • James Wiseman likely will miss the rest of the season with a torn kneecap.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2021
  • In May, he was injured on the job site when a piece of sheet metal slipped and caught him on the kneecap.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
  • About a dozen elderly dogs, none taller than a kneecap, putter around on the gray linoleum or nap on blankets.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2022
  • People will experience pain in front of the knee or behind the kneecap.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado may 13, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
  • The muscle still tried to manipulate the kneecap to avoid painful grinding in the joint.
    — Longreads, 25 May 2021
  • The quadriceps muscles are joined in a tendon that attaches to the kneecap.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • To increase stability, make sure to place the elbow of your lead hand in front of your kneecap.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Only the lower leg bones, feet and kneecaps remain of another body.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The quadriceps are four large thigh muscles that form two tendons that attach on either side of the kneecap.
    — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Poot-Baca pushed the victim to the ground, fracturing her kneecap.
    — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In the background of the photo, just to the right of the car’s headlights, a man’s kneecap is visible.
    — Miles Moffeit, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Albies will be re-evaluated in a couple days after the ball struck him on the kneecap.
    — Beth Harris, ajc, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The bursa is a tissue structure in the front of your knee located between the skin and the kneecap.
    — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The patellar tendon attaches the bottom of the kneecap to the top of the shinbone.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • With two outs and the bases empty, Misterek took a pitch to the kneecap that sent him to the dirt grimacing.
    — Anthony Ciardelli, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
  • Bending the knees too far past your toes may also lead to pain or clicking in the kneecaps, Carbone added.
    — Allison Forsyth, Health, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Filipowski had his right leg wrapped in plastic to fasten an ice bag to his kneecap afterward.
    — Aaron Beard, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • When the hips are weak, the thigh bone loses its stability and moves underneath the kneecap.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 31 Aug. 2020

kneecap

2 of 2 verb
  • Thee Album, was kneecapped by the squabble.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The best way to kneecap a really strong story is to create white noise.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • And this guy is using his bully pulpit to attack and try to kneecap Goodyear?
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
  • From there, second-row occupants can decide whether or not to kneecap the third-rowers with the seats.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Now legal attacks from outside threaten to kneecap it entirely.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Cutting off those payments too soon could kneecap any economic recovery, Strohl said.
    — NBC News, 16 June 2020
  • That did not stop the justices from holding a cadaver synod of sorts for the policy and kneecapping future ones.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But massive wide receiver and offensive line injuries kneecapped any semblance of an offense.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • More recently, Meta has faced major problems at its business that have kneecapped the company’s growth.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Many disease experts worry that the rage over pandemic restrictions has kneecapped public health leaders.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Like, maybe, the huge social networking platform that Apple has been quietly as well as overtly trying to kneecap for years?
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022
  • How better to undercut growth than to kneecap some of the world’s most successful technology companies?
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The government wanted to kneecap my reputation.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • Congress can start with the tax code, where expiring tax provisions are poised to kneecap the post-pandemic economic recovery.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 Jan. 2022
  • But Musk could certainly kneecap Twitter via inept management.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The first release by Snocaps — a band name shared by a tooth-cracking old-school movie theater candy and a kneecapping new-school cannabis product — suggests as much.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The last few years have shown just how far FCC opponents will go to kneecap the agency — and how little its supporters are doing to stop them.
    — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 23 June 2023
  • But none of those companies has left the Business Roundtable, meaning their membership dues are still funding an effort to kneecap the bill.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2021
  • But any number of rulings could also kneecap that authority, with some targeting the very ability of federal agencies to set and enforce any rules at all.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Two crucial developments kneecapped the committee.
    — Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Williams alleges that the federal case against him and a law partner was set in motion by people in Cannizzaro’s camp seeking to kneecap his political prospects.
    — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Instead, Congress began slashing the IRS’ budget, kneecapping the agency for more than a decade.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 24 June 2021
  • What’s more, at a time when action addressing climate change is at a premium, this decision will kneecap our ability to address harmful power plant emissions.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 30 June 2022
  • This could kneecap President Biden’s ability to enact climate protections and beyond.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2021
  • But a legal case against Moya could expose ties between her party and Mexico’s cartels, kneecapping her domestic standing.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The timing of the leak, in the run-up to the mayoral election and other key races, suggests a classic October surprise designed to kneecap a candidate on the eve of voting.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Case for buying Unlike with many bad teams, which tend to perform poorly all over the field, this Red Sox team has mostly been kneecapped by one obvious, overwhelming flaw.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • Some small and mid sized Bay Area companies are worried the shortages could kneecap the economic comeback after a year of massive disruption brought on by the coronavirus.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
  • These tariffs threaten to kneecap an emerging sector of innovation around the world, that is, for the first time, using traditional startup strategies and pathways to innovate, scale and grow.
    — Nish Acharya, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Russia’s move has pitched Europe’s energy crisis into a dangerous new phase that threatens to drain vital fuel supplies and kneecap the continent’s economy.
    — WSJ, 17 June 2022

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