Sentence examples for anklebone from inspiring English sources

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anklebone

noun

The bone of the ankle.

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At the lower end of the tibia there is a medial extension (the medial malleolus), which forms part of the ankle joint and articulates with the talus (anklebone) below; there is also a fibular notch, which meets the lower end of the shaft of the fibula.

They grazed the anklebone, as if an unemployed futures trader too distracted by the help-wanted ads to read the care instructions on his pants had thrown them into a dryer at the laundromat.

No butterfly tattoo above her anklebone.

Foot-binding was done to young girls, crushing the four smaller toes under the sole and compressing the rear of the anklebone.

There was a hefty seasoning of masculine references – pinstripe trousers cropped to this season's on-trend "high water" hemline, just above the anklebone, and sandals which laced up like brogues – although one model carried a clutch printed with the slogan, Feministe mais feminin.

These days, with sportswear well and truly entrenched in our non-gym wardrobes, the quest for the perfect grey-marl sweatshirt is up there with finding jeans that hit your anklebone at exactly the right point.

That day, they unearthed a finger bone, the anklebone of a bovid, probably an antelope, and the maxillary molar of a wildebeest.

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Simon's anklebones appear shiny at his pants' hems.

Does this mean there's something un-grown-up about him, something that'll go away one day, like his stick-out shoulder blades and his knobby anklebones?

The researchers also discovered that the rodentlike animal had mobile and flexible anklebones, suggesting that it was a fast runner that primarily lived on the ground.

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