Example Sentences

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She said that, because of the rampant theft of some of the femurs, tibias and skulls in the past, the bones were now cemented together.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

She heightens the sense of otherworldliness by employing unusual materials, including horse tibias and cigarette butts.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020

Some think it has to do with skeletal structure: female tibias tend to slope backward more at rest, leaving more room to accelerate as they land from a jump.

From Slate • May 4, 2012

Still others are stalklike, stiffly articulated into a stack of tibias, and one hangs off the wall�looking for all the world like a pterodactyl.

From Time Magazine Archive

I learned that insects are arthropods and that they have tibias too!

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper