How to Use adductor in a Sentence

adductor

noun
  • Roll along the entire length of your adductors from the groins to just before the knee.
    Dana Santas, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Galvis then had to come out of the game with left adductor soreness.
    Todd Karpovich, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • It’s the third straight game James has sat out because of a strained adductor injury in his left leg.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Wainwright has missed the first few starts of the season with a strain of the groin/adductor muscle that happened in March.
    Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2023
  • Tip-ins Suns: Booker missed his sixth game with a left adductor strain.
    Sean Shapiro, star-telegram, 18 Dec. 2017
  • How to Do It: This long adductor stretch is done with one knee on the ground with your hip directly over the knee and your hands on the floor.
    Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Guard Jacob Evans, who has missed the past 13 games with a strained adductor in his left hip, has been ruled out of least six more games.
    Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Wiggins has missed the Warriors’ last five games because of a right adductor strain.
    C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Goodrum has been diagnosed with an adductor strain and will be sidelined for up to two weeks.
    Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Carlos Vela also went the distance in his first game, but winger Omar Gaber, who has a left adductor strain, did not play.
    Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • But the 27-year-old forward wound up missing 11 games because of his right adductor strain.
    C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Thomas measured the adductor muscles of the inner thigh but did not touch the groin area, MacDonald said.
    Fox News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Starting guard Fred VanVleet missed his third straight game with a left adductor strain.
    Bill Trocchi, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The Brazil player was ruled out of the match with an injury to his right adductor muscle and did not train with his teammates on Monday.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
  • In a big blow, San Diego starter Blake Snell left after 11 pitches with a left adductor injury.
    Beth Harris, ajc, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Maeda went on the injured list with a right adductor strain after his last start in Cleveland.
    Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • Martinez left last Wednesday’s game against the Blue Jays because of left adductor tightness and had not played since.
    Ian Harrison, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Nevas, one of the world’s top goalkeepers, strained an adductor muscle and was replaced by Leonel Moreiera at the start of the second half.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Lakers: Davis missed his second game of the season, sitting out with a right adductor strain.
    Greg Beacham, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Ryu had discomfort in the adductor muscle on his left side earlier in the week.
    Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Finney-Smith, returning from a right adductor strain, could think of no better test than to go nose-to-nose with the NBA’s leading scorer.
    Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • INF David Fletcher had surgery today to repair the adductor muscles in both legs.
    oregonlive, 10 May 2022
  • Siakam is expected to miss at least two weeks because of a strained right adductor muscle.
    Ian Harrison, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
  • This aims to get the inner thighs and adductor muscles loosened up to decrease tension there.
    Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Maeda had a right adductor strain and general right arm soreness and last pitched on May 22.
    Brian Hall, Chron, 14 June 2021
  • Finney-Smith started and played 35 minutes in his return from missing 14 games with a right adductor strain.
    Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Davis made his return in Friday's loss to the Kings after missing the previous three games with a left adductor strain.
    William Guillory, NOLA.com, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Thames struck out in each of his first two at-bats before being lifted with a mild left adductor strain, and he was replaced at first base by Jesús Aguilar.
    Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Gary Harris was having a rocky season before the adductor strain sidelined him for a few games.
    Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Cam Johnson returned from a four-game absence for a left adductor strain and, with his playing time restricted, scored four points on 1-of-5 shooting in 18 minutes off the bench.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024

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