1.   I was worried about a hairline fracture, but luckily it was just a bad lump.

2.   Jones had the hairline fracture of his lower leg examined by a doctor....

3.   The specialist he consulted on Monday diagnosed a hairline fracture of his right wrist and wants to take another look on Friday.

4.   He suffered a hairline fracture of the right index finger.

5.   Also running on Sunday was freshman offensive lineman Faasea Mailo, who has been out with a hairline fracture in his right shoulder.

6.   An X-ray taken during the second half revealed a hairline fracture running down the fibula, in the lower leg.

7.   And like a digital photo, the digital X-ray image can be enhanced by computer to pick out finer details like a hairline bone fracture.

8.   Bonds also played gallantly through a hairline fracture in his right wrist in the final weeks of the season, but was obviously slowed by it.

9.   A hairline fracture of the shinbone had cost her three weeks of valuable repetitions.

10.   Broken metal sometimes speaks loudest of all, a lexicon of metal fatigue, stress, microscopic imperfections and hairline fractures.