floating rib in a sentence

Examples

1. I didn't get any solid result on whether women are any more likely to be missing a floating rib than a man.
2. Connie goes to the book launch at The Floating Rib, where she eventually tells the crowd that Molly is the actual author.
3. The eleventh rib and the twelfth rib, the floating ribs, have a single articular facet on the head, which is of rather large size.
4. In several ethnic groups, most significantly the Japanese, the tenth rib is sometimes a floating rib, as it lacks a cartilaginous connection to the seventh rib.
5. On February 4, 2013, Felicia is shocked to find that Frisco has returned unannounced to Port Charles, and the two share a poignant reunion at The Floating Rib.
6. They tied the guilty men on his hands in the back with rattan rope and paraded them, and then stabbed the offender in the back where there is a floating rib which resulted in instant death.
7. The phrase " floating rib " ( ) refers to the two lowermost, the eleventh and twelfth, rib pairs; so-called because they are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum or cartilage of the sternum.
8. This includes driving knuckles into pressure points, holding their opponent's head in order to tire out the neck ( called the " can opener " or kubi-hishigi ) and putting body weight on top of the sternum, floating ribs, or similarly sensitive bones.
9. There is no record of who coached Cambridge, who were seriously disrupted in the build-up to the race, with Edric Wolseley Haig contracting mumps, J . C . Brown breaking a floating rib and William King Hardacre being introduced to the crew days prior to replace him.
10. It consists of the ribs and sternum . The ribs of the thorax are numbered in ascending order from 1-12.11 & 12 are known as floating ribs because they have no anterior attachment point in particular the cartilage attached to the sternum, as 1-7 are, and therefore are termed " floating ".