How to Use cartilage in a Sentence

cartilage

noun

• She fell and damaged some cartilage in her knee.
• The cartilage is the part that covers the ends of your bones that form the joint.
  — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 1 May 2025
• The meniscus is the disk of cartilage that sits in your knee joint.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• The larynx is a cartilage tube between the end of the tongue and the top of the trachea (windpipe).
  — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 5 July 2025
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• With luck, the pincer will come free and bring with it the cartilage within the claw.
  — House Beautiful, 20 July 2012
• How many boomers have that kind of cartilage left in their joints?
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that serves as a shock absorber for the knee joint.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
• Put your thumb on the right nostril where the nose bone meets cartilage.
  — Kim Weeks, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Remove the skin and guts, so that just the meat and cartilage remain.
  — Ellie Rushing, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• The piercing goes through the innermost cartilage fold of the ear, above the ear canal.
  — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• The cartilage of Barron's ear is red and the lobe is the usual color.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
• Follow the breastbone to carve the breast, using the cartilage as a guide for your knife.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 19 Feb. 2018
• Follow the breastbone to carve the breast, using the cartilage as a guide for your knife.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 14 Mar. 2017
• It had long been thought that cartilage, once gone, cannot grow back.
  — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• Pull the skin and cartilage off the knobby end of the drumstick and clean it up with a knife or kitchen scissors.
  — Allie Morris, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• When the cartilage cap at the end of your bones wears thin, this is known as osteoarthritis.
  — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
• Stem cells, she was told, could regrow the cartilage in her knee.
  — AZCentral.com, 12 June 2021
• The claws will often have pieces of cartilage, so be sure to check and remove them.
  — Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
• The labrum is a cartilage ring that follows and cushions the outside rim of the socket of a hip joint.
  — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Mike Bites ears have a bite mark at the top of the gummy, right where Tyson took off a piece of Holyfield's cartilage.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2022
• The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber for the knee joint — the bigger the person, the bigger the strain.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2021
• The labrum is a ring of cartilage that helps stabilize the shoulder joint.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
• The cartilage was showing wear and tear that just wasn’t common for a 19-year-old.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 July 2019
• The thinning of the cartilage also narrows the space between the bones.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
• Helpful for joint support and is found in cartilage.
  — Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 29 May 2026
• The long layoff is to allow the labrums and the cartilage time to heal.
  — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 22 May 2026
• Rhodes’ bones transform into wild, loose cartilage.
  — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
• Gelatin is a protein derived from collagen, which is found in animal tissues like skin, bones, and cartilage.
  — Jennifer Klump, Verywell Health, 13 May 2026
• Like her gown, her face, earlobe, and cartilage were full of all types of jewels both silver-, bronze-, and gold-toned.
  — Essence, 5 May 2026