collarbone
Americannoun
-
collarbones
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of collarbone
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Pogacar, the back-to-back champ, wasn’t there to defend, having broken his collarbone in late August at the Vuelta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“I have one on my inner ankle, one on my forearm, one on my collarbone, one on my lower back of a cat reading ‘Bunny’ and one on my thigh,” Grondine says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Belgian's comments came as Jonas Vingegaard was woken at 02:00 and race leader Tadej Pogacar at 05:00 local time for tests before Sunday's stage - in which the Dane crashed and broke his collarbone.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Call him the “Bionic Man” because that collarbone is so strong right now without the aid of surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Didn’t know you had a tattoo,” he says, looking at my collarbone.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
On the neck, two triangle diamonds the size of almonds sit between the collarbones, mirroring each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
Healed injuries—broken collarbones, fractured foot bones, and cracked vertebrae—matched the kinds of damage a kicking horse might inflict, or what sports medicine doctors today see in riders thrown from their horses.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 2, 2023
"I don't have collarbones, so I can touch my shoulders together under my chin," says Karen Hunt.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022
When Ornato told this story to Hutchinson, with Engel in the room, she said, he gestured toward his collarbones.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
