ankle

Example Sentences

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Annie can’t travel outside Louisiana and has to wear an ankle monitor—for how long isn’t clear.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Researchers compared it to taking painkillers while continuing to run on an injured ankle.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

Cox had expected to have three horses in the Derby but the barn was hit with some bad news on Thursday morning, when Fulleffort was scratched due to a chip in his left hind ankle.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Ollie Watkins was close to breaking his ankle.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

The chupacabras’s mordida had left three ugly lacerations two inches above her ankle, on the outside of her leg, so both her ankle and calf were swollen to twice their normal size.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall