Sentence examples for discarded limbs from inspiring English sources

Because her first artificial leg had become too big two months after she began using it, when the swelling around her injury had gone down, Mills established a program for recycling discarded limbs.

However, it is discarded because limbs with two prismatic pairs are not considered for practical purposes.

Call it an eloquent frenzy of objects: a mountain of suitcases, countless tangled eyeglasses, discarded artificial limbs piled behind the glass.

As her prosthetic leg had to be replaced on a regular basis (because the size of the amputated stump kept changing as it healed), she had the idea to collect thousands of discarded prosthetic limbs for amputees in Croatia.

I'll be discarding some limbs shortly.

By 1912, after the forests had been clearcut, Quehanna was covered by "vast expanses of brush, created when the root systems of cut-off trees sprouted up through the discarded tops and limbs of the logged forest".

Patients who could not achieve full extension of the knee with resting limb were discarded for this study.

In Luhanskoye, soldiers stood outside, smoking against a backdrop of destruction — discarded ammunition boxes, broken tree limbs and shattered glass.

Her most memorable experience in the program was a trip to a hospital's gross room, where doctors store amputated limbs and other discarded pieces of anatomy.

We saw a half-conscious man sprawled on the street being tended to by paramedics after being sucker-punched; hundreds of police officers standing in riot gear; and smashed store windows and the scattered limbs of mannequins and discarded trinkets.

In 1970, the Jaycettes discarded their batons to free their limbs for new maneuvers a somewhat radical development in the South, where baton-twirling majorettes had been a hallmark of college halftime shows for two decades.