Tibia is an English word with synonyms like shinbone or shin. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tibia meaning
- The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone.
- The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
- The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
Using Tibia
- The main meaning on this page is: The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone. | The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus. | The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
- Useful related words include: shinbone, shin, leg bone.
- In the example corpus, tibia often appears in combinations such as: tibia and, the tibia, his tibia.
Context around Tibia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tibia
- In this selection, "tibia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, broken, fractured, knee, fibula, suffered and fracture stand out and add context to how "tibia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a broken tibia suffered while and a broken tibia which will. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tibia" sits close to words such as aarhus, abdu and abetted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tibia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Above the knee: femur, knee: patella, below the knee: tibia, fibula. (11 words)
Christina Salas, a UNM engineer, holds a model of a fractured tibia. (12 words)
It was a lower tibia fracture, so the plate butts up against that ankle bone. (15 words)
Alex Smith, the 34-year-old quarterback the Redskins signed for $111 million this off-season, fractured his tibia and fibula in November, then spent a month in the hospital fighting off an infection. (34 words)
Bryant, who tragically passed away Sunday morning, took to Instagram shortly after Hayward gruesomely dislocated his ankle and fractured his tibia mere minutes into his regular-season debut with Boston. (30 words)
She went to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and found out she had broken a lot of her lower back, her tibia and ankle, and hurt her spinal cord. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Above the knee: femur, knee: patella, below the knee: tibia, fibula.
Her injuries required surgery to insert a plate and nine screws in her right tibia and full reconstruction of her right knee.
Josh Berry, 21st in qualifying Saturday, is the fill-in driver while Elliott recovers from a broken tibia suffered while snowboarding in Colorado last month.
Moses’ tibia and fibula were broken during the ‘painful’ treatment last month, and magnetic, limb-lengthening nails were inserted into those bones.
Osiah, 16, broke his tibia and fibula in his lower leg after falling awkwardly in a game at Helston Athletic FC in Cornwall.
The game was stopped for more than eight minutes after a wild Martin Taylor challenge broke his opponent’s tibia and fibula.
After having a sore leg, Lani was originally diagnosed, at age 10, with stage 3 metastatic osteosarcoma in her right tibia and left lower lung.
After the Week 6 contest, Campbell that Hutchinson sustained a broken tibia, which will sideline the 24-year-old for the rest of the season.
It was a lower tibia fracture, so the plate butts up against that ankle bone.
She went to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and found out she had broken a lot of her lower back, her tibia and ankle, and hurt her spinal cord.
Alex Smith’s courageous comeback continues when he makes his first NFL start since breaking his right tibia and fibula on Nov. 18, 2018.
Bryant, who tragically passed away Sunday morning, took to Instagram shortly after Hayward gruesomely dislocated his ankle and fractured his tibia mere minutes into his regular-season debut with Boston.
Christina Salas, a UNM engineer, holds a model of a fractured tibia.
Last year they began working with the DNA Doe Project to try to identify the remains from a piece of the tibia, a long leg bone.
That’s what happened to the daughter of our colleague Adam Pasick, who broke her tibia on a trampoline on Wednesday.
Smith broke both his tibia and fibula Nov. 18 during the Redskins’ Week 11 loss to the Houston Texans.
Smith sustained a broken fibula and tibia in his right leg against the Houston Texans on Nov. 18, 2018, that required 17 surgeries.
Alex Smith broke his fibula and tibia in Week 11 before his backup, McCoy, broke his fibula against the Eagles on Monday.
Alex Smith, the 34-year-old quarterback the Redskins signed for $111 million this off-season, fractured his tibia and fibula in November, then spent a month in the hospital fighting off an infection.
Cigarini went to a nearby hospital with a fractured tibia and fibula, after surgery to say that it went well and he appreciated people thinking about him.
Common combinations with tibia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: