How to Use long bone in a Sentence

long bone

noun

• The research team knows little else about the inch-long bone.
  — Ian Cartwright, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2018
• Double long bone pork chop, served with dressed greens and Mont sauce.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2025
• It's most often found in the long bones of the legs, and sometimes the arms.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• The humerus is the long bone in the upper arm that extends from your shoulder to your elbow joint.
  — Maggie Aime, Msn, Health, 6 Dec. 2024
• These are areas of cartilage at the ends of long bones that allow the bones to grow longer and wider.
  — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• Their long bones are hardening, and their skin is thin and see-through but will soon become thicker.
  — Alexandra Frost, Parents, 5 Nov. 2023
• The tibia is a long bone, the second longest in the body, in the leg that spans from the ankle to the knee.
  — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2026
• The fibula, also called the calf bone, is a long bone that runs next to the larger tibia bone, or shin bone.
  — Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2022
• Alongside the chalk drum in the grave was long bone pin, which might have held a shroud in place, and a clay ball, that a child might play with.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
• Much like long bone growth, pelvis width is driven largely by estrogen levels.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2020
• Forensic experts removed hair, nails and two long bones in July.
  — kansascity, 6 Sep. 2017
• Like the other three types of bones, long bones are composed of a combination of compact bone and spongy bone.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• But it was limited to four measurements of the skull and three of long bones — the tibia, humerus and radius.
  — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
• As a bone grows, new tissue is deposited on the outside, and in the long bones growth also occurs at the ends of the shafts.
  — Kevin Padian, Scientific American, 1 May 2014
• Underneath the uniform were a single tooth, two right rib fragments, one long bone fragment and the metatarsal from a right pinkie.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
• Examples of long bones include the bones of the leg and arm — like the femur and the fibula — as well as the bones of the fingers and toes.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• There is also a limited selection of pastas and Niman-ranch long bone pork rib chops.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
• It was thought that lifting weights could stunt growth caused by damage to the epiphyseal plates in long bones like the femur (thigh) and humerus (upper arm).
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2024
• Swelling outer tissues and internal water pooling around long bones also meant the skeletons were baked rather than burned.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
• Scratches inside her cranium point to the removal of her brain, while long bones like the humeri, femur, and ulna were carved down to sharp points.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
• Osteosarcoma is a type of cancer that starts in the cells that form bones and most commonly occurs in the long bones of the body, such as the arms and legs.
  — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 15 Sep. 2024
• After puberty, when the long bones of the body are sealed, patients with acromegaly get bigger from soft-tissue enlargement but cannot grow taller.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• The 10 cm long bone is thought to have come from a mammal and has a series of notches along it, suggesting it could have been used as a tally stick.
  — Rachel Wood, CNN, 21 May 2021
• Howard has scanned items ranging in size from squirrel and rabbit bones to a bison's rib, as well as jaw and long bones from dire wolves, horses, big cats, camels and coyotes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• Sanders ultimately went through six rounds of chemotherapy and a three-week long bone marrow transplant, which was extremely hard on her body.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
• In addition to the drum, the team found a clay ball believed to be a child’s toy and a long bone pin that may have once kept a burial shroud in place, the Post reports.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• See it In the burial, researchers found long bones, including femurs, tibias, rays and ulnae, placed in their own sector.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• Many of the skull and long bones were fractured while the bones were still fresh, perhaps to allow the surviving people of the group to extract the nutritious marrow.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• The largest of the two is the metatarsophalangeal joint (MTP), where the first long bone of the foot (metatarsal) meets the first bone of the toe (phalanx).
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
• The bones have since disappeared, but Hoodless’s seven measurements survived—four of the skull and three long bone lengths (humerus, radius, and tibia).
  — National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2018