Example Sentences

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Two left feet, two left clavicles, two left everything.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

The clavicles are S-shaped bones that position the arms on the body.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

If the ending of this book does not leave you with tears pooling down in your clavicles, you are a stronger person than I am.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2019

I recently read an article in a fashion magazine advising women to wear low-cut dresses so as to show off … their clavicles.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2016

The slender bars e, e, which may be termed clavicles, are broadest in the fore part, where they also are bored through, and fastened with pegs, serving to give stability to the cross beam c.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von