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- noun Plural form of
metatarsal .
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Examples
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Friday's goat-man brings only famine and ruined metatarsals.
Post-Op David Woodruff 2011
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Broken metatarsals, red cards and prolonged listlessness pepper his attempts to be known as a great international footballer.
Disorder and demons afflict Wayne Rooney on the international stage | Paul Hayward 2011
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His right foot was sheered across his metatarsals, the five long bones before the toes.
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His right foot was sheered across his metatarsals, the five long bones before the toes.
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Your feet should hit naturally on your heel, roll forward and push off with your metatarsals (the area we call the ball of the foot).
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If Huckabee did spend the next three days gnawing on his own metatarsals, I'd be inclined to say he would "win the week."
Mike Huckabee Seeks Clarification On Whether His Mau Mau Uprising Comments Were Dumb Or Not The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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She'll also have a smile on her face because she isn't being besieged by inflamed metatarsals, as she would be in other shoes.
Terence Clarke: The Sweep of an Elegant Toe: Comme il faut, Buenos Aires Terence Clarke 2011
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I'm sorry, he said, flicking the needle between metatarsals.
Ten Micros 2010
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Crescendo started at the toes, tightly rolling up the toes, metatarsals, ankles, fibia, tibia until agony began to dim the eyes; at the edge of endurance the fleshy pink began to emerge from shredded, bleeding throat, slip-sliding in heaving, crushing gusts.
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His left foot has been severed across the metatarsals, cleaving off all but the great toe, which juts at an unnatural angle.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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