shinbone
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shinbone
before 1000; Middle English; Old English scinbān. See shin 1, bone
Example Sentences
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Vonn suffered a complex fracture in her left tibia or shinbone, the larger and stronger of the two bones in the lower leg.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
The condition, which strikes many young athletes, causes painful inflammation of the growth plate just above the shinbone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
Croatia international Gvardiol, 23, recently had surgery after breaking his shinbone in the 1-1 draw with Chelsea, while Portugal centre-back Dias, 28, is out for about four to six weeks with a hamstring injury.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026
In 1994, Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and her team found more than 80 fossils of teeth, jaws, a partial arm, and shinbone at two sites near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
Christopher laughed, and the squirrel ran up his shinbone to his knee.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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