How to Use sternum in a Sentence

sternum

noun
  • My sternum was fractured, my rib cage pried open.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Medium loft that keeps your chin aligned with your sternum.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Medium loft keeps your chin aligned with your sternum.
    — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Hays rubbed her knuckles against the girl’s sternum, then checked her pulse.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The cause of death was a shot through the sternum that struck the aorta and lodged in the spine.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 16 May 2017
  • The surgeon had to cut her chest wide open from neck to the bottom of her sternum.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • My puncture site had been a half-inch too close to the center, too near the sternum.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2015
  • But Jamie takes the lethal knife to the sternum from Beth to end it and him.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • For your head, choose a medium-loft pillow that keeps your chin aligned with your sternum.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Place the heel of one hand at the bottom of the breast bone (sternum) at the nipple line.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And this season has been a headbutt to the sternum, day after day.
    — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
  • His ribs and sternum were also fractured.
    — Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Berry also sported a sultry top that plunged all the way down to her sternum.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Prior to that, Taurasi missed a month due to a fractured sternum.
    — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 13 July 2021
  • Her sternum and nine ribs had been broken, but Barbara lived.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • The bullet that hit his vest left him with a welt on his stomach, just below his sternum.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2023
  • As a result, the main area of recovery was the sternum.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Many of the models were heaped with backpacks worn high on the back that pushed the sternum forward.
    — Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019
  • The scar wound from my sternum, around my belly button, and just beyond the top of my jeans.
    — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Squatting beside him, our mother beat her fists against his sternum.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • My mother zipped up my dress, which sagged at the chest, exposing the bony knobs of my sternum.
    — Pamila Lew, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Whether draped, cinched, wrapped, or clutched at the sternum, there’s no wrong way to mater this versatile piece.
    — Minty Mellon, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Push your heels into the floor and unrack it, holding the bar above your sternum with straight arms.
    — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Taurasi, the league’s all-time leading scorer, had been out with a fractured sternum.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • Next, run your knife, blade up, between your fingers, opening the gut all the way up to the sternum.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The cancer had also metastasized to a lymph node in her armpit and her sternum.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • Stand facing a wall and place the ball under your collarbone at the sternum.
    — Kelly Dinardo New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • She was then diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, which had spread to her lungs, lymph nodes, and sternum.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Prosecutors said one of the men was stabbed in the chest, his sternum cracked in the attack.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • There were lesions, areas of bone destruction, on top of both of my hip bones and on my sternum.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025

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