How to Use kneecap in a Sentence

kneecap

1 of 2 noun
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  • There’d be a kneecap over there on the ground of my own that just fell off.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Team physicians were able to get his kneecap back in place on the field.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • So Red pulls out a gun and threatens to shoot his kneecaps.
    — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 May 2023
  • Ross: The area between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants to a point just below the kneecap.
    — Houston Mitchell, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
  • The biggest scars wind down her left leg on either side of the kneecap.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Mayor was shot in the knee and had her kneecap shattered.
    — Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2022
  • Runner’s knee can feel like a dull, diffuse ache in and around the kneecap.
    — SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
  • And as the Lions fell, 34-31, in a wild NFC title game, there were no kneecaps to bite.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • In May, he was injured on the job site when a piece of sheet metal slipped and caught him on the kneecap.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
  • In the background of the photo, just to the right of the car’s headlights, a man’s kneecap is visible.
    — Miles Moffeit, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The patellar tendon attaches the bottom of the kneecap to the top of the shinbone.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • James Wiseman likely will miss the rest of the season with a torn kneecap.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Williams, 25, dislocated his kneecap against the Ravens in the first round of the playoffs.
    — The Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The actress, who plays Eleven in the series, couldn’t make the event because of a broken kneecap.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • The actress, who plays Eleven in the series, couldn't make the event because of a broken kneecap.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2018
  • With two outs and the bases empty, Misterek took a pitch to the kneecap that sent him to the dirt grimacing.
    — Anthony Ciardelli, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
  • Her kneecap healed, but nerve tumors had formed in her leg, and the pain grew steadily worse.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Aka patellofemoral pain syndrome, or pain around or behind the kneecap.
    — Ashley Mateo, Health, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Yelich broke his kneecap late in the season and wasn’t able to play during the Brewers’ run to an NL wild card.
    — Noah Trister, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Stop right before the kneecap and move your arms backward so that the roller moves towards your hips.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Boutin had dislocated his kneecap and would miss the rest of the season.
    — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • The muscle still tried to manipulate the kneecap to avoid painful grinding in the joint.
    — Longreads, 25 May 2021
  • The bursa is a tissue structure in the front of your knee located between the skin and the kneecap.
    — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That said, the Lions will be ‘biting kneecaps’ this week on our run to the Superbowl.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Yelich suffered a fractured kneecap and missed the rest of the season, a total of 32 games and the postseason.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • The former first-round pick dislocated his kneecap in the recent loss to the Ravens.
    — The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Shohei Ohtani will miss the rest of the Los Angeles Angels’ season to have surgery on his left kneecap.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Poot-Baca pushed the victim to the ground, fracturing her kneecap.
    — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The quadriceps muscles are joined in a tendon that attaches to the kneecap.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • There were two deep punctures behind the kneecap, with blood pouring out.
    — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
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kneecap

2 of 2 verb
  • And that kind of kneecapped the entire thing for many years.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • The best way to kneecap a really strong story is to create white noise.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • And this guy is using his bully pulpit to attack and try to kneecap Goodyear?
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
  • From there, second-row occupants can decide whether or not to kneecap the third-rowers with the seats.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The last few years have shown just how far FCC opponents will go to kneecap the agency — and how little its supporters are doing to stop them.
    — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 23 June 2023
  • That did not stop the justices from holding a cadaver synod of sorts for the policy and kneecapping future ones.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But none of those companies has left the Business Roundtable, meaning their membership dues are still funding an effort to kneecap the bill.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The timing of the leak, in the run-up to the mayoral election and other key races, suggests a classic October surprise designed to kneecap a candidate on the eve of voting.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • More recently, Meta has faced major problems at its business that have kneecapped the company’s growth.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Like, maybe, the huge social networking platform that Apple has been quietly as well as overtly trying to kneecap for years?
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Apple, with nearly $200 billion in cash on hand, could take greater ownership of the sector as U.S. lawmakers and rivals look to kneecap its App Store fees tactic.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Cutting off those payments too soon could kneecap any economic recovery, Strohl said.
    — NBC News, 16 June 2020
  • In a statement Monday night, Trump’s campaign dismissed the new indictments as a partisan attempt to kneecap his 2024 campaign.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Williams alleges that the federal case against him and a law partner was set in motion by people in Cannizzaro’s camp seeking to kneecap his political prospects.
    — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Some small and mid sized Bay Area companies are worried the shortages could kneecap the economic comeback after a year of massive disruption brought on by the coronavirus.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Congress can start with the tax code, where expiring tax provisions are poised to kneecap the post-pandemic economic recovery.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 Jan. 2022
  • That, in turn, would kneecap both U.S. and international efforts to limit carbon emissions.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • How better to undercut growth than to kneecap some of the world’s most successful technology companies?
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2021
  • After its disastrous opening of $55.7 million last weekend, the DC Comics multiverse mash-up is getting kneecapped in its second outing.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 June 2023
  • Many disease experts worry that the rage over pandemic restrictions has kneecapped public health leaders.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • But any number of rulings could also kneecap that authority, with some targeting the very ability of federal agencies to set and enforce any rules at all.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The brahmins of the Republican Party, meanwhile, are plotting against him; hoping to learn from their mistakes and kneecap him at the earliest opportunity.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The two executives were among those named as defendants in the New York attorney general's $250 million lawsuit, which seeks to kneecap the company's operations in the state.
    — CBS News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Yet Huawei’s recent phone may show that China can produce more advanced chips despite U.S. rules designed to kneecap the country’s semiconductor industry.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But whether in person or remotely, the party lined up in opposition to the panel, which their leaders insisted would be a one-sided forum for Democrats to censure Mr. Trump and try to kneecap Republicans in the 2022 elections.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • But Musk could certainly kneecap Twitter via inept management.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The Biden administration said the ban would cut off more than half of Russia’s high-tech imports and kneecap the country’s ability to diversify its economy and support its military.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • What’s more, at a time when action addressing climate change is at a premium, this decision will kneecap our ability to address harmful power plant emissions.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 30 June 2022
  • Also, a postscript: All of you who’ve decided that Haugen’s dissemination of the Facebook documents to the media are going to finally kneecap the company?
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Oct. 2021
  • This could kneecap President Biden’s ability to enact climate protections and beyond.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2021

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