Sprain in a sentence as a noun

I fell in the yard and sprained my wrist.

But I thought that high ankle sprains took 4 weeks to heal.

If someone has a sprain ankle, but thinks they have cancer.

But if you recall, Lee had a high ankle sprain on the same foot last year.

He confirms it’s just a sprain and nothing broken.

"Coach Cowher replied, "4 weeks is true, Myron, for the first high ankle sprain.

And since subsequent high ankle sprains only take 2 weeks to heal, he's ready to play.

I had a pretty rough ankle sprain a few years back, mobility still isn't 100% of what it was.

I waited a few weeks before I saw anyone in hopes that it was some kind of major sprain.

I have a weak knee that I sprained while training for a marathon about five years ago.

Myron then asked, "Well then, why don't you take the whole team out in February and sprain all their ankles?

"Myron paused and asked, "Then why don't you just take the whole team out in February and sprain all their ankles?

Sprain in a sentence as a verb

Coach told him that the first high ankle sprain usually took 4 weeks to heal, but subseqent high ankle sprains only took 2 weeks to heal.

In the course of working up the ankle -- mildly sprained, no problem -- he found that the patient doesn't work and is on 100% disability.

His is a mild case, but he carries crutches because his knee sometimes locks from one of his attacks -- muscle sprain in childhood -- and he needs its support.

The only time I’ve been to him and been prescribed something before getting a blood test was when I went in for a muscle sprain, and even then the prescription was for some pretty mild muscle relaxers.

People wouldn't get three X-rays and two MRIs to determine whether or not a wrist had a very minor fracture or a very major sprain -- they'd just slap a cast on it and wait a few weeks until it was better.

I had mine at about the same age or maybe a little younger - my foot was so swollen, and so sensitive that doctors couldn't believe it was anything other than a break, sprain or some other gross damage.

> walking to the corner store to pick up a small parcel* You could sprain your ankle and not make it* The parcel might have been stolen by a robber* The corner store might be on fire* Feral dogs might chase you to the other side of town

While it doesn't cause me any functional impairment, I have a near-constant dull ache in my leg from the sprain and from the other muscles remaining under tension in what I assume is an effort to hold my leg together.

I know that on the rare occasions I buy travel insurance it's because I have expensive non-refundable reservations of some sort, typically requiring physical activity that I can't do if I sprain my ankle the week before.

> Communities like HN have a much stronger super-ego, and unwanted behavior is put downBefore we sprain something with collective back-patting, have you seen what happens when anyone suggests that HN might have issues with gender or privilege?

For example if you sign a waiver of liability when you go skydiving, it might protect the skydiving company against a suit if you land the wrong way and sprain your ankle, but it won't protect them against a suit if the pilot was drunk and the plane crashes.

Sprain definitions

noun

a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments

verb

twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"

See also: twist wrench turn wrick rick