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How to use Achilles in a sentence

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Ellis had already withdrawn from the Leicester team because of an Achilles tendon injury and he must also be in doubt for Saturday.
The Achilles tendon is the thick, strong tendon that joins the calf muscles to the heel bone.
Troy is at its best in the climactic fight scene between Hector and Achilles, and its aftermath.
I've had a run of bad luck with illness and Achilles problems and now this.
Physical examination revealed pale skin and mucous membranes, as well as bilaterally decreased patellar and Achilles tendon reflexes.
Then, begin stretching the plantar fascia and the Achilles tendon, which attaches the calf muscles to the heel bone.
It is dangerously ambitious, if not outright hubristic, to use Homer's poem about the rage of Achilles as your source.
In fact, that was the Congress' Achilles heel as it scouted for more supporters.
If Bobbitt's predictions prove correct, The Shield of Achilles will rightly be seen as an epochal work.
The tissue-welding experiments were extended to studies on rabbit Achilles tendons.
The second story transports us into the high-pitched world of the famous Greek heroes Ajax and Achilles.
Typically they overlie pressure areas, including elbows, fingers, and Achilles, ischial, and sacral prominences.
Conditions that increase tension on the plantar fascia and may cause pain include pes planus, pes cavus, and a tight Achilles tendon.
It decreases the tensile forces placed upon the Achilles tendon via dissemination of forces resulting from a muscular contraction.
Thus disguised as a maiden, Achilles is introduced as his sister into the court of Lycomedes and there joins the company of the king's daughters.
Palpation of the Achilles tendon often elicits tenderness along the tendon.
This strap helps alleviate the pain and discomfort of Achilles tendonitis, an ailment common among basketball players.
Achilles tendonitis is common when persons first take up athletic activities.
Among younger dancers, overuse injuries like shin splints and Achilles tendinitis are common.
The 28-year-old Dutch striker has been out of action for nearly three months because of an Achilles injury.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Iphigeneia was brought to Aulis, he says, under the pretence that she was to wed Achilles.
He represented in pantomimic dance the scene of Achilles in the island of Scyros.
But Achilles was an Achaean, and the same is true of most of the other chief heroes.
But Achilles was amazed at the sight of Priam, and amazed were the rest, and they looked at each other.
Still the body of Hector lay on the ground, and the men of Ilion sought in vain to redeem it from Achilles.
Is not the shield of Achilles, like Dante's pavement of the purgatorial staircase, a forecast of the future?
Thou know'st Achilles fiery, and propense Blame to impute even where blame is none.
Thus all night long did the Myrmidons gather round Achilles to mourn Patroclus.
For bait, he must have used alcohol, too, since it was the Achilles heel of the djinn.
Achilles tendon, the great tendon of the heel, where Achilles was vulnerable.
One of the horses of Achilles, named Xanthus, predicted to his master that he would die before Troy.
To Achilles and Ulysses he was particularly hostile, for these two he used to revile.
He will be like Hector, who draws the admiration of the world a thousand-fold more than Achilles, his vanquisher.
I shall meet him in courage, did he outmatch great Achilles and wear arms like his forged by Vulcan's hands.
Make the Achilles tendon in same way and leave back of thigh off to be stuffed.
The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon.
Meantime, the services of the notorious klepht Achilles have been engaged.
The hind leg must have its tendon of Achilles before it can be finished.
Achilles then kills Troilus himself, and we hear no more of the lady.
The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest, Achilles thus the king of men addressed.
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