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How to use the word fracture in a Sentence?

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When a community finds itself deprived of its sense of identity, because of whatever historical shock or fracture with its past, it invents traditions to act as founding myths, italian cuisine really is more American than it is Italian.

Alberto Grandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Earlier this morning, Paul Pelosi was attacked at home by an assailant who acted with force, and threatened his life while demanding to see the Speaker, mr. Pelosi was admitted to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospitalwhere he underwent successful surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. His doctors expect a full recovery.

Drew Hammill

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

From the satellite data, we're seeing these big fractures spreading across the ice shelf surface, essentially weakening the fabric of the ice ; kind of a bit like a windscreen crack, it's slowly spreading across the ice shelf and eventually it's going to fracture into lots of different pieces.

Peter Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a major public health problem in the US. One out of two women age 50 and older will develop an osteoporosis-related fracture in their remaining lifetime, it's really important that patients with osteoporosis be evaluated for the many underlying factors that contribute to osteoporosis to see if there's any reversible causes.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He hoped to dominate Ukraine without a fight – he failed, he hoped to fracture European resolve – he failed. He hoped to weaken the transatlantic alliance – he failed. He hoped to split apart American democracies in terms of our positions – he failed.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Head trauma where there is loss of consciousness can be concerning, specific factors that are cause for further evaluation include if the person is not back to baseline two hours after the injury, if there is concern for a significant enough impact to cause a fracture to the skull, if there is bruising around the eyes, vomiting more than two times or age greater than 65 years old.

Fred Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's convinced the U.S.'s long-term goal is to basically fracture Russia.

Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Your cat will simply associate the frightening behavior with you, their trusted owner instead of the innocuous tree, by following this holiday suggestion, you are much more likely to fracture your relationship with your cat than save a single ornament.

Monica Freden-Tarant

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Blanco Fracture zone quakes are strike-slip( lateral motions of the crustal blocks on either side, rather than up-down displacement), so it is very unlikely for them to pose a tsunami threat, even if a bigger quake happened, like a magnitude 7.0 for example.

Harold Tobin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

RHP Charlie Morton underwent X-rays tonight that revealed a right fibula fracture. He will miss the remainder of the World Series and is expected to be ready for Spring Training in 2022.

The Braves

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we fail to shore up the moral and ethical bulwarks of our society we will have to live with the consequences. We will almost certainly watch our international reputation continue to wane. We will continue to lose our way and fracture at our many seams. A philosopher-king like Aurelius—American democratic leaders like Aurelius—can help us change course and save us from ourselves.

Mick Mulroy

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

When he shaves off his mustache, he's got a hairline fracture, he's got one of those, what do you call it, cleft lip, cleft palate.

Wendy Williams

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After only one or two turns the snow started to fracture above us as well as below us, i heard a female voice over my right shoulder, I think it was Rebecca, say calmly, 'it's giving way, try to stay on top.'.

Bill Fuzak

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Supporting red flag would completely fracture the base.

Dudley Brown

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's unusual to have a neck fracture, but the first question to address is when did it occur.

Zhongxue Hua

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The combination of ultra-thin glass, less than the thickness of human hair, and very high strength allows glass to be bent, twisted, etc. without fracture, it will not fold flat like a dollar bill, but you could fold it around a metal rod and you could do it over and over and it will still go back to flat [ without ] creases.

William LaCourse

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I cant believe she did what she did with that kind of fracture but shell recover from it, it will take time.

Zora Bulatovic

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Our mission is to fracture all the measures the U.S. government imposes, and today we are setting priorities.

Betsy Diaz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Older adults who do fall sometimes experience an injury, about 20 % of those who fall have an injury like traumatic brain injury or a hip fracture or other broken bones.

Kathy Cameron

Found on CNN
5 years ago

All of the patients in this study received a CT scan to evaluate for brain bleeding or skull fracture and may have had a neurological deficit when they came to the emergency room. While that type of injury can be classified as' mild,' it's a lot more severe than a sport-related concussion typically would be, all in all, I think it's a good study for helping to predict who is at risk for depression and PTSD after a traumatic brain injury sustained in a car accident or from an assault.

John Leddy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Mild traumatic brain injury is a category of bran injury that includes concussion, with concussion being at the mildest end of that spectrum. So sports concussion, for example, would be a subset of mild traumatic brain injury, all of the patients in this study received a CT scan to evaluate for brain bleeding or skull fracture and may have had a neurological deficit when they came to the emergency room. While that type of injury can be classified as' mild,' it's a lot more severe than a sport-related concussion typically would be.

John Leddy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The doctor diagnosed him with a possible left wrist fracture, he had a confirmed sprain in one of his wrists.

Trina Abrams

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was a compound fracture.

Megan Stackhouse

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.

Rajveer Purohit

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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