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How to use fracture in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Fracture means an instance of breaking, a place where something has broken. Example: “A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.”

Examples of fracture by meaning

nounAn instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.

  • Hall found the immediate cause at Rickerscote to have been the complete fracture of an axle on STS 53241, the freight train's ninth wagon.2026 March 18, Greg Morse, “1996 crash driving freight reforms”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 51

verbTo amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

  • “You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said.2013, Frank De Blase, Pine Box for a Pin-Up

More sentences with fracture

  • A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.From the entry malleus
  • Three casualties were admitted with suspected fractures in their heads.From the entry suspected
  • Hemotympanum is often the result of basilar skull fracture.From the entry hemotympanum
  • The patient had a non-traumatic fracture of the femur.From the entry non-traumatic
  • The fracture had been caused by fatigue initiated by corrosion pitting on the axle surface.2026 March 18, Greg Morse, “1996 crash driving freight reforms”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 51. From the entry initiate
  • Think of it as a slow fracture in an employee’s psychological foundation at work.2025 August 26, Claire Hall, “Management Professor Offers Advice on How to Combat ‘Quiet Cracking’ in the Workplace”, in UConn Today. From the entry quiet cracking
  • Our attention spans and tastes keep fracturing, and the ratings for late-night comedy keep declining.2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic. From the entry monoculture
  • Creatures and powers start coming in from the wood work, there are fractures in time itself.2022 September 8, u/Adrewmc, “What did the war Doctor do that supposedly brought shame or regret to his future regenerations?”, in Reddit…. From the entry unfight
  • Where fracturing is anticipated, these are often drillable or dissolvable ball-activated check valves.2018, Les Skinner, Hydraulic Rig Technology and Operations, page 306. From the entry drillable
  • Anteroposterior film of the patient’s vertebral column showed severe rachioscoliosis and compression fracture.2017 April, Xuan Qi, Qianqian Pang, Jiawei Wang, Zhen Zhao, Ou Wang, Lijun Xu, Jiangfeng Mao, Yan Jiang, Mei Li, Xiaoping Xing, Wei Yu…. From the entry rachioscoliosis
  • Wrist fractures encountered in natural disasters most frequently belong to the more complicated types, viz.2016, Ping-Chung Leung, Kwong-Sui Leung, Leung-Kim Hung, “Hand and Wrist Injuries”, in Nikolaj Wolfson, editor, Orthpedics in Disasters…. From the entry comminution
  • In our patients, 7 periprosthetic fractures were treated with locking compression plates, and all patients achieved union.2015 May 10, Youngwoo Kim et al., “Treatment of periprosthetic femoral fractures after femoral revision using a long stem”, in BMC…. From the entry periprosthetic
  • Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.2014, Alireza Bahadori, Natural Gas Processing: Technology and Engineering Design (Technology and Engineering), Gulf Professional…. From the entry fraccing
  • Hypoestrogenemic amenorrhea has been associated with an increased risk of osteoporosis and fractures.2013, Terry Mahan Buttaro, Primary Care: A Collaborative Practice, Elsevier Mosby Publishing, page 798. From the entry hypoestrogenemic
  • This is clearly related to the fracturing of this social base.2013 August, Luke March, “What’s Left of the Left in Central and Eastern Europe?”, in Russian International Affairs Council. From the entry redwashing
  • In each procedure, a cementlike material is injected into the fracture.2009 June 17, Barry Meier, “Synthes, Medical Device Maker, Accused of Improper Marketing”, in New York Times. From the entry cementlike
  • These are fracture systems, which have been filled with other sediments and minerals.2008, Martin Hovland, “Ancient and Modern Analogues”, in Deep-water Coral Reefs: Unique Biodiversity Hot-spots (Springer–Praxis Books in…. From the entry neptunian
  • Figure 17.9 shows permeability of various kinds of proppants under fracture closure stress.2007, Boyun Guo, William C. Lyons, Ali Ghalambor, Petroleum Production Engineering: A Computer-Assisted Approach, page 17/259. From the entry proppant
  • Fracturing the formation in the lingo of the oil patch is to perform a frac job.2005, Martin S. Raymond, William L. Leffler, Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language. From the entry oilpatch
  • Some flakes detached in a controlled manner have characteristics of conchoidal fracture.2005, “Chapter 19: Lithic Studies”, in Herbert D. G. Maschner, Christopher Chippindale, editors, Handbook of Archaeological Methods…. From the entry conchoidal
  • Though each singer speaks a different language, a harmony results, rather than fracture and fragmentation.2005, Wendy W. Walters, At Home In Diaspora: Black International Writing, page 119. From the entry many-tongued
  • This method is used to treat simple olecranon fracture proximal to the koronion.2002, Y. Y. Chu, L. C. Zhao, Shape Memory Materials and Its Applications. From the entry koronion
  • An anteroposterior radiograph of the ankle shows an ununited collicular fracture of the medial malleolus.2001, Alan S. Banks, Michael S. Downey, Dennis E. Martin, McGlamry's Comprehensive Textbook of Foot and Ankle Surgery, volume 2, page 1107. From the entry ununited
  • Hence, the fracture surface consists of a periodic array of semispherical bowls.1998 October 30, Anvar A. Zakhidov et al., “Carbon Structures with Three-Dimensional Periodicity at Optical Wavelengths”, in Science…. From the entry semispherical
  • A trimensional scan showed only cuts, bruises and a small fracture in her kneecap.1996, W[illiam] R[och] Thompson, Infiltrator, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry trimensional
  • Warping of the continental plate created fissures and fractures in the Roraima sandstone plateaus.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 543. From the entry continental plate
  • Greensticks are generally closed fractures, but occasionally with external wounds they become open.1985, Norman G. Kirby, S. James Mather, Baillière's handbook of first aid, page 136. From the entry greenstick
  • These lineaments may be associated with large fractures in the earth's crust.1967, United States Geological Survey, Geological Survey Research 1967: Chapter A [Geological Survey Professional Paper; 575-A]…. From the entry lineament
  • Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disease classified as an osteopenic fragilizing osteopathy that predisposes individuals to a greater risk of fracture.2022, Hans-Christoph Pape, Stephen L. Kates, Christian Hierholzer, Senior Trauma Patients: An Integrated Approach, page 34. From the entry fragilize
  • Gentian de Barke fell downstairs—she denied being drunk or otherwise chemically inconvenienced—broke her leg, compound fracture apparently, and dislocated her shoulder.2019, C. A. Hope, The Barley Break, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry chemically inconvenienced
  • In forgings where the fracture is very anisomerous (Figure 6.33 , curve 2b), the grain faces are clearly expressed.2016, Olga Grushko, Boris Ovsyannikov, Viktor Ovchinnokov, Aluminum-Lithium Alloys, page 156. From the entry anisomerous
  • In case of a small fragment or comminuted fracture, an osteosuture of the anterior capsule with associated bone fragment is performed.2016, André Thès, Philippe Hardy, Arthroscopy: Basic to Advanced, Elbow Fractures Treatments, page 729. From the entry osteosuture
  • The bony fragments are misunited because the fracture was never reduced by a doctor prior to bony repair.2016, Max M. Houck, Forensic Anthropology, page 292. From the entry misunite
  • In the past, there have been controversies over the use of bone graft in comminuted fractures of the forearm.2011, S. John Ham, Matthijs R. Krijnen, Rudolf W. Poolman, “48: Forearm Fractures, Including Galeazzi Fractures”, in Mohit Bhandari…. From the entry comminute
  • On one side of the radial edge, the conchoidal fractures form right angles, that is, form a perpendicular with the edge.2011, Robert C Shaler, Crime Scene Forensics: A Scientific Method Approach, page 479. From the entry conchoidal
  • On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus.2009, V Rus, V Miclaus, GC Nadas, D Cadar, “STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF THE WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA) ESOPHAGUS.”, in Annals of the…. From the entry euthanasiate
  • Runners with amenorrhea experience more running-related injuries than runners with eumenorrhea, and an increased incidence of stress fractures.1998, Emily M. Haymes, Priscilla M. Clarkson, “Minerals and Trace Minerals”, in Jacqueline R. Berning, Suzanne Nelson Steen, editors…. From the entry eumenorrhea
  • The larger volume of crude was pumped in an attempt to overflush the fracture as effectively as possible.1995, Proceedings, International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, page 63. From the entry overflush

Meaning of fracture

  1. noun An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
  2. noun A break in bone or cartilage.
  3. noun A fault or crack in a rock.

Full definition of fracture

Questions about fracture in a sentence

How do you use fracture in a sentence?
Fracture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.”
What is a short sentence with fracture?
““You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said.”
What does fracture mean?
Fracture means an instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.

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