Example Sentences

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Although her patellas have hamstring tendons from cadavers, Flanagan has come through the eclipse stronger than she expected.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021

“His patellas are not really attached to anything,” Gardner says.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2018

Obtritum vulgi perit omne cadaver more animae; domus interea secura patellas iam lavat et bucca foculum excitat et sonat unctis striglibus et pleno componit lintea gutto.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

He came out of the dance with both patellas bruised.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

Cui patellas aureas, et argenteos calices, et sumptuosa donaria, et opulentam gazam invidet?

From Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund