hairline fracture

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noun

a very fine crack in a bone

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Words nearby hairline fracture

hairif, hair implant, hair lacquer, hairless, hairline, hairline fracture, hair net, hair of the dog that bit you, hairpiece, hairpin, hair-raiser

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How to use hairline fracture in a sentence

Manning is a broad man with salt and pepper hair, a receding hairline, and rimless glasses.
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"My wife and I have been married for nineteen years," says Palmer, mulling the stress-fracture in his family life.
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He is a relatively young man with a trim, tight beard and receding hairline.
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Facebook has—to fracture an old phrase—just closed the barn door after a billion cows already departed the premises.
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And the truth is, I got way more opportunities out of Half Nelson than I did out of Fracture.
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Very compact and fine-grained reddish granular quartz, with a glistening lustre, and flat conchoidal fracture.
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When the sound is over, he may not be able to see a trace of the fracture, which at first is very narrow.
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The parts barely touched each other, though in cases of human fracture the bones sometimes get drawn past.
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It was no comminuted fracture I had to deal with, but a very simple case of simple fracture.
The Red Cow and Her Friends|Peter McArthur
One of the projections of the Little Douvre had made a fracture in the starboard side of the hull.
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