Example Sentences

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Two left feet, two left clavicles, two left everything.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

If the ending of this book does not leave you with tears pooling down in your clavicles, you are a stronger person than I am.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2019

Recently Vogue declared the cleavage was “over”, noting that celebrities were binning off their deep V gowns, choosing fashion that showcased their clavicles instead.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017

Peat cutters occasionally churn up ancient mandibles, clavicles, or entire cadavers that have been preserved for millennia.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

Simultaneous fracture of both clavicles usually results from a severe transverse crush of the upper part of the thorax or from a fall on the outstretched hands—for example, in hunting.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander