Examples of shinbone in a Sentence
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The tibia, sometimes called the shinbone, is the frontal of the two bones in the lower leg.
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Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
The shinbone, or tibia, shows that the creature spent a fair amount of its time walking upright, says Penn State paleontologist Alan Walker, who worked with Leakey.
—Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Geothermal plants provide 47 percent of Kenya's energy, and production is expected to grow as droughts reduce hydropower sources.
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Human skull and shinbone fossils found in a Laos cave suggest modern humans arrived in mainland Southeast Asia up to 36,000 years earlier than thought.
—Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
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
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
The patellar tendon attaches the bottom of the kneecap to the top of the shinbone.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
This is a shinbone from a Centrosaurus apertus: a horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago in Alberta, Canada.
—New York Times, 25 May 2022
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
Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
The shinbone, or tibia, shows that the creature spent a fair amount of its time walking upright, says Penn State paleontologist Alan Walker, who worked with Leakey.
—Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Geothermal plants provide 47 percent of Kenya's energy, and production is expected to grow as droughts reduce hydropower sources.
LAOS
Human skull and shinbone fossils found in a Laos cave suggest modern humans arrived in mainland Southeast Asia up to 36,000 years earlier than thought.
—Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
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
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
The patellar tendon attaches the bottom of the kneecap to the top of the shinbone.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
This is a shinbone from a Centrosaurus apertus: a horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago in Alberta, Canada.
—New York Times, 25 May 2022
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
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shinbone
noun
shin·bone
ˈshin-ˈbōn 
-ˌbōn
Medical Definition
shinbone
noun
shin·bone
ˈshin-ˈbōn, -ˌbōn
: tibia
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