How to Use navicular in a Sentence

navicular

adjective
  • Warren played in four games all of last season because of a stress fracture in the navicular bone of his left foot.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Tuesday to repair a fractured navicular bone in his left foot, the team announced.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Pelluer broke the navicular bone on his left foot – that’s the bone on the inner side of the foot just above the arch and the injury will require surgery.
    — Stefanie Loh, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The center had missed the previous two seasons because of navicular bone surgeries on his right foot.
    — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 25 May 2017
  • Cook ran low mileage and did cross-training as a senior after recovering from a navicular stress fracture in her foot.
    — Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • But Sellers’s college career was cut short her senior year because of a navicular stress fracture in her foot.
    — Owen Pence, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Gray also suffered a left foot navicular stress fracture during his third start in 2017.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The most common bones in the feet and lower leg to experience stress fractures are the navicular, talus, tibia and fibula.
    — Philip Anloague, Fortune Well, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Robinson will miss the rest of this season and needs surgery after a CT scan revealed a stress fracture on the navicular bone in his foot.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Embiid, who sat out his first two seasons because of breaks to the navicular bone in his right foot, was having a sensational season.
    — Darryl Matsuda, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Bol's college career was cut short in January after fracturing the navicular bone in his left foot.
    — Emily Caron, SI.com, 21 June 2019
  • The Warren Central junior missed her sophomore season with a stress fracture in the navicular bone of her right foot.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2023
  • Warren has been out since the fourth game of the regular-season after receiving surgery because of a stress fracture in the navicular bone in his left foot.
    — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2021
  • That broke the navicular bone in her left foot, forcing her to withdraw from the trials and evaporating her hopes to make the Tokyo Games.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Alec Burks is rehabbing a navicular fracture and will be re-evaluated in three weeks, the team announced Monday.
    — Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Hip and ankle flexibility was measured, as were foot posture index and navicular drop, which both assess how much your foot pronates (rolls inward) or supinates (rolls outward).
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 7 May 2021
  • Nadal, who has a longstanding foot problem because his navicular bone did not correctly ossify during childhood, was upbeat about his progress after his loss to Harris.
    — Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Bol had surgery on his navicular bone in his left foot, an injury that doesn’t exactly have the best track record in regard to seven footers getting the injury, with multiple needing more than one procedure to fix the issue.
    — Sean Meagher | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
  • Nadal was diagnosed with Mueller-Weiss syndrome early in his career, a rare degenerative condition that attacks the navicular bone in the foot.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • Fractures in the navicular bone are considered a serious injury, often requiring surgery and lengthy recovery periods.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Tilson, who was injured during his major-league debut last season, has been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the navicular bone in his right ankle and will be in a walking boot for four weeks before being reevaluated.
    — Chris Kuc, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • In particular, the study points to one of the most underappreciated joints in the human body, the union between the navicular and medial cuneiform, which is crucial to the recoil.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • The veteran sharpshooter missed all of training camp, preseason and Detroit’s first 12 games while recovering from a left navicular fracture.
    — Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2022
  • While shin splints occur in the posterior tibialis muscle (the shin), posterior tibial tendonitis can occur in the tendon that wraps around the inside of the ankle and connects the muscle to the navicular bone at the midfoot.
    — Outside Online, 17 June 2019
  • The Heat released a statement Tuesday evening sharing the details of Waiters’ surgery and a preexisting navicular bone fracture was also repaired.
    — Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Nadal played through many injuries during his career, including a rare, degenerative bone disorder called Müller-Weiss syndrome, which is characterized by a misshaped navicular bone, per the National Organization for Rare Disorders.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026

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