How to Use shinbone in a Sentence

shinbone

noun
  • His friend’s right arm was out of its socket, his shinbone poking through his skin.
    — The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
  • This band of tissue connects the thigh bone to the shinbone and stabilizes the knee.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The patellar tendon attaches the bottom of the kneecap to the top of the shinbone.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The tibia — also known as the shinbone — is the large, weight-bearing bone between the knee and ankle.
    — Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The private had been shot in the legs and shinbone, and his right hand had been shredded, leaving three of his fingers barely attached.
    — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Overall, the goal is to help relieve tension along the side of your thigh in the tissue that extends from the top of your thigh to the top of your shinbone.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Another acupressure point, which is said to nourish the blood, is found just below the knee on the outer side of the shinbone.
    — NBC News, 14 May 2020
  • Diners pass around sturdy shanks, each held aloft by the shinbone, using a sharp knife to slice off bits of the dark meat, which is patterned with mold and smells of blue cheese.
    — Tim Ecott, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2023
  • The condition, which strikes many young athletes, causes painful inflammation of the growth plate just above the shinbone.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For instance, excess bone growth on a tibia or shinbone can indicate soft-tissue infections on the leg that spread to the bone.
    — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2016
  • Schlatter disease, an inflammation of the area just below the knee where the tendon from the kneecap attaches to the shinbone.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The muscle that performs this motion is the tibialis anterior, located along the front of the shinbone.
    — Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 5 June 2025
  • Four days later, Taylor left the hospital in a wheelchair, her right shinbone held together with a metal plate and a dozen screws.
    — Emily Schmall, The Seattle Times, 6 July 2017
  • Wallace will also miss out after picking up a shinbone injury before his side's loss to Genoa on Monday.
    — SI.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The team also compared characteristics of the shinbone with those of other tyrannosaurs.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Another team is developing a working meniscus, a thick piece of cartilage that sits between the thigh bone and shinbone.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Tray, who was born without a shinbone, participated in the Short Course of the Texans' triathlon last year.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Due to a congenital abnormality, Frech was born with only one finger on his left hand and missing his left knee and shinbone.
    — Emily Burack, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • And defensive players and linemen who have had surgery to replace or repair their meniscus, the knee cartilage that cushions the shinbone from the thighbone?
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The shinbone is three feet long and about five inches in diameter, only slightly smaller than the largest known Tyrannosaurus specimen.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The anterior cruciate ligament is a thick band of tissue connecting the thigh bone (the femur) to the shinbone (the tibia).
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • One of the bullets struck Taylor, shattering her right shinbone, and officers quickly shielded her from more incoming rounds.
    — Emily Schmall, The Seattle Times, 6 July 2017
  • Shin splints are generally diagnosed by someone noticing tenderness, soreness, or pain along the inner side of the shinbone, and mild swelling in the lower leg.
    — Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2019
  • However, there is a risk of the shinbone rubbing against the femur with this type of injury, which can injure the cartilage (which is designed to reduce friction between the bones).
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Ligaments connect bones, and the ACL connects the thighbone (femur) to the shinbone (tibia).
    — Colin Hoobler, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Tanner suffered a broken shinbone, facial trauma, abrasions and a laceration caused by the fall, and the death was ruled a homicide, authorities said.
    — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • One is Osgood-Schlatter disease, a condition that usually occurs during a growth spurt when a tendon tugs on a growth plate in the shinbone, causing pain.
    — Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In the same 2010 e-mail, Dunn cited the case of another patient who suffered compartment syndrome during surgery on a broken shinbone.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Currie once saw a Confuciusornis—a crow-sized Cretaceous bird—that was clearly fake because its foot had been glued directly to its knee, with no shinbone in the middle.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Woods is back in his Florida home recovering from multiple surgeries, including procedures to repair two broken bones in his lower right leg with a rod in his shinbone.
    — Stefanie Dazio, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2021

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