How to Use vertebra in a Sentence

vertebra

noun
  • Nod your head, then imagine rolling through your spine, one vertebra at a time.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Nod your head, then imagine rolling through your spine, one vertebra at a time.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The arteries in the neck run through two vertebrae in the neck.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The hands, feet and vertebrae were intact, and the skull was still there, but the rest had been picked clean.
    — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
  • Ribs and vertebrae were spread out about 50 feet behind the skull.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
  • To come out of this pose, slowly roll up one vertebra at a time with your head being the last thing to come up.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • In modern human children, those vertebrae are fused around the ages of four to six.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Columbo cut his head and cracked a cervical vertebra in the crash, records show.
    — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The bike’s impact with the trench’s far wall jammed his body against the seat and shattered a vertebra in his lower back.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2015
  • The dinosaur sample captures eight vertebrae from the middle or end of a long, thin tail.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2018
  • The researchers were also able to estimate blood flow to the brain, based on the skull and vertebrae.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The crash left Thompson with compressed vertebrae in his lower back, which had to be fused.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
  • Spondylolisthesis is when one of the bones in your spine, called a vertebra, slips forward.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • At the top, inhale and hold your breath a few seconds, then exhale and slowly roll back down one vertebra at a time.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 20 May 2021
  • The fossil would turn out to include six neck vertebrae, part of the right shoulder blade, and most of the right forelimb.
    — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
  • The cancer also damaged a vertebra in her spine, requiring her to wear a neck brace for more than six months.
    — Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Keep gaze forward and rotate a broom or stick side to side to rotate through the upper-thoracic vertebra.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But this time the injury was not to the nerve sheath but to the nerve fiber, and after vertebra surgery, the prognosis was not good.
    — Susan Gubar, New York Times, 28 May 2020
  • Each vertebra weighs over 220 pounds and its ribs measure nearly 5 feet long.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Each vertebra weighs more than 220 pounds, and its ribs measure nearly 5 feet long.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Next, tuck the tailbone and lift it back off the floor one vertebra at a time until the torso forms a straight line from shoulders to knees.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Surgery revealed damage to her spinal cord, in the area below the T-6 vertebra.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • Based on the size of its vertebra, researchers estimate the creature was at least 30 feet long.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • However, the fracture of the seventh cervical vertebra of the spine would not heal on its own.
    — Eric Willemsen, ajc, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The bullet damaged the 11th thoracic vertebra, the next to last counting down from the top.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • From there, reverse the movement by flexing one vertebra at a time, starting at the neck and moving down through the mid-back and low back.
    — Danielle Zickl, Health, 15 June 2026
  • The backstrap is a super lean and tender strip of meat that runs along a deer’s spine, stretching from the shoulder blades to the last vertebra.
    — Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The vertebra used in the new study was found at the Kem Kem fossil bed in Morocco.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Byrd asked if Grow wanted a full cervical spine – the vertebrae and tissue in the neck, just below the skull.
    — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The owner of the 'Ubeidya vertebra almost certainly didn't think of her life in those terms.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2022

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