How to Use sacrum in a Sentence

sacrum

noun
  • My sacrum detached from my spine on the left side.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
  • On top of this, most of them also lacked a true sacrum.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Chris poured water over Lisa’s belly and pressed a sock filled with warm rice on her sacrum.
    — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 1 May 2018
  • These were real legs that were clearly connected to a bony sacrum.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • My sacrum attachment and / or glute max area got very sore towards the end of workout.
    — Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Reach back with the arm of the same side and place your fist on your sacrum—the bony area at the base of your spine that connects to your pelvis.
    — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The cancer, already at Stage 4, had metastasized to her sacrum, a bone at the base of her spine.
    — Marie Milano, Country Living, 16 Feb. 2019
  • The last bones to go, the ilium and sacrum (the big hip bones atop the skeleton) are the heaviest bone structure.
    — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Those seams dug into my sacrum, leaving light bruising after only three miles with 35 pounds on board.
    — Corey Buhay, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The pelvis, too, has a tendency to be shown warped and curvy as if combined with the sacrum into a single semi-circular unit.
    — Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The ancient whale’s hip was tightly attached to the sacrum, the triangular bone at the base of the spine that stabilizes the pelvis.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Cancer spread through her body like the roots of an aggressive weed, invading her ribs, her lymph nodes, liver, the bone of her left arm, the bone of her sacrum.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2018
  • His scalp and liver were lacerated, his femur, sacrum and multiple ribs were broken.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Acanthostega is also the first tetrapod with a sacrum, strengthening the pelvis-hind limb connection.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • The sacrum consists of two vertebrae that form a large triangular bone at the bottom of the spine, acting as a wedge between the hip bones.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Young Shaylie had suffered a broken jaw in two places, a broken neck in two places, a broken femur, a fractured sacrum and a brain injury.
    — Fox News, 14 July 2022
  • Generally, the most limited section of the human birth canal is the section between the upper part of the sacrum and the front of the pelvis.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • The tight fusion of vertebrae at the hip-spine connection—called the sacrum—also became unfused and more flexible.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The bullet entered her backside and went through her abdomen, fracturing her sacrum, said her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein.
    — Karen Zraick, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • In May, doctors diagnosed Newton-John with breast cancer that had metastasized to the sacrum.
    — Nicole Sands, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Ryan also suffered a fracture in her sacrum, at the junction where the spine connects to the pelvis, said another one of her surgeons, Andrew Mo.
    — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • O’Donnell’s injuries were severe including a broken right foot, four fractures to his pelvic bone and a shattered sacrum, a small bone located near the bottom of the spine.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2024
  • O’Donnell suffered a broken sacrum, the triangular bone between the hip bones, a broken right foot and too many fractures of his pelvic region for the doctors to even count, his wife said.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Newton-John announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer which had metastasized to the sacrum in May 2017.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • According to Owen, the sacroiliac joints just beneath your spine that connect to the sacrum are similarly vulnerable, along with your wing-like hip bones.
    — Holly Lebowitz Rossi, Good Housekeeping, 20 Jan. 2016
  • Metastasis is the development of secondary malignant growths from a primary site of cancer, while the sacrum is the bone located between the two hipbones of the pelvis.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
  • As a result, the main chute opened asymmetrically and swept Corliss directly into Howick Falls. Sucked inward and downward by the roaring water, Corliss bounced off a rock ledge hard enough to snap his sacrum, break a vertebra, and dislocate his tailbone.
    — Daniel Duane, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In May 2017, the singer-songwriter and actress announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer that had metastasized to the sacrum.
    — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In 2017, Newton-John publicly announced that her breast cancer had reoccurred and metastasized to her sacrum.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026

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