How to Use flex in a Sentence

flex

1 of 2 verb

• He flexed the muscles of his right arm.
• Make sure to keep hips square and stacked and left foot flexed.
  — Megan Falk, Women's Health, 28 June 2023
• Daines asked to hold his hands, but Gabriel couldn’t flex his right hand.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Find your favorite and get ready to flex your green thumb.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2023
• This isn’t the first time Crenshaw has flexed his vocals.
  — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Tap your left heel on the floor, keep your right foot flexed up, and return to standing.
  — Alisha McDarris, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• Yet as Sanders struck a pose on the Rose Bowl field and flexed, a yellow flag fell behind his feet.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Tap right hand to outside of right ankle, flexing right obliques in the process.
  — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 17 May 2023
• The Bucks once again flexed their defensive muscles, holding the 76ers to a mere 98 points.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, Iran and its allies have been flexing their muscles in the region.
  — Asif Shahzad and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
• Led by Forbes’ 26 points, the Trojans flexed their depth on a rare off game for Watkins, who was held to a season-low nine points.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• In the shots, Michael is flexing his arms behind his wife, who appears to be blowing a kiss.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
• When the last bell finally sounded, Bud flexed his arms into the shape of a rifle.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Each team could have games flexed into prime time, however, and times for Week 18 have not yet been set.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• As the half wore on, however, the Wildcats began to flex their muscles.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 18 Feb. 2023
• So, the spacecraft will measure any flexing on the moon's surface and take scans of the entire moon during its 50flybys.
  — Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
• Warmer weather and sunny days are here for the season, and many in Charlotte are eager to flex their green thumbs.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Engage your abs to lift your head, shoulders, arms, and legs off the ground, keeping your arms down by your sides and your legs straight out, feet flexed.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 11 Sep. 2023
• This guy's flexing his biceps all the time, hoping someone will touch him.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 May 2023
• Thanks to the easy-to-use seat-belt guides, big kids can flex their independence by buckling themselves in.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 11 July 2023
• Adjust Around Edges Jenna flexed the stencil where the patio abuts a wall and taped it for ease in stenciling.
  — Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2023
• Curl the weights upward by flexing your wrists, bringing the dumbbells toward your body.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
• Drive your lower back into the floor, flexing your abs and glutes to create tension.
  — Men's Health, 26 May 2023
• The defense also flexed its muscles with 11 tackles for loss.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• After his fifth triple, which came off a no-look, between-the-legs pass from Steph Curry, Green flexed both his arms while jogging back.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
• James punctuated things with a driving score to seal it in overtime, howling and flexing at the crowd with the win about to be in his grasp.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Once on the fringes, lowrider owners and car clubs flexed their political muscle and helped pass a law to bring back cruise nights.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• On a recent afternoon, a woman posed in front of the quote, flexing her biceps as a man photographed her.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• What's a courtside seat if not an opportunity to flex your style?
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 3 May 2024
• To go from searching for love to writing about love seemed like the appropriate time for Brown to flex her creative writing muscle.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024

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flex

2 of 2 noun

• As the heat out west briefly flexes toward us, highs rise to the mid-90s.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• The four-way stretch spandex works in the back of the knee to promote a comfortable flex.
  — Jack Byram, Verywell Health, 15 Sep. 2023
• On the scale of track-day flexes, air jacks is pretty high up there.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
• At the top, Amorosi flexes with a howl, the kind of swagger that comes with having been there, done it.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
• Although wearing the real thing from the wilder days of drag racing would be the ultimate flex.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2020
• But the Norelco OneBlade flexes to the curves of my face for constant skin contact, and mowed through my stubble in only a couple of strokes.
  — Joseph Cheatham, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• Some of the crowd are pogoing, and the floor flexes dangerously like a trampoline.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
• But this weekend’s air-power flex is disturbing all the same for proponents of a free and stable Asia.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Action: The action of a rod describes how a rod flexes over its length and this goes a long way to determine its performance.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• These storylines are impressive flexes, and winning nods to the show’s niche.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 June 2023
• The Light Seal gently flexes to conform to your face, delivering a precise fit while blocking out stray light.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 7 June 2023
• Screws can also loosen over time as the joint flexes with use and the wood’s natural expansion and contraction over seasons.
  — Jean Levasseur, Popular Science, 26 July 2023
• The pattern of that reflection changes when the membrane flexes, which is what happens if the finger is contacting something.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2023
• As a flex of its first-party offerings, however, the lineup is still muscular.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
• They’re usually made from polypropylene, a highly durable type of plastic that flexes under pressure.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• No less effective for artistic expression, just shorter-lasting than the big guns, shaving sprays and stickers were easy street art flexes.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
• What chef Hiroyuki Masato is attempting at Iki Ramen is the ultimate culinary flex.
  — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• The source of this success is a visibly arduous game plan that flexes from team to team — and a higher attention to the details of that plan from individual players.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
• It’s built with a Pebax spike plate that adds a touch of rigidity to maintain performance form, while still allowing a natural flex that favors novice runners.
  — Cory Smith, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2022
• But for the most part, before the development of modern mechanical refrigeration in the 19th century, a steady supply of ice out of season could be obtained only by flexes of power.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• The track, which sounds like a formidable Atlanta rap anthem, is voiced over by convincing-sounding impressions of SpongeBob characters airing out canon-appropriate flexes.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2023
• So Kaufman and Gronich executed an inventive flex for theater, making the photos more than mere projections onto a set and turning them essentially into quasi-characters alongside their three-dimensional partners.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• As the heat out west briefly flexes toward us, highs rise to the mid-90s.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• The four-way stretch spandex works in the back of the knee to promote a comfortable flex.
  — Jack Byram, Verywell Health, 15 Sep. 2023
• On the scale of track-day flexes, air jacks is pretty high up there.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
• At the top, Amorosi flexes with a howl, the kind of swagger that comes with having been there, done it.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
• Although wearing the real thing from the wilder days of drag racing would be the ultimate flex.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2020
• But the Norelco OneBlade flexes to the curves of my face for constant skin contact, and mowed through my stubble in only a couple of strokes.
  — Joseph Cheatham, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• Some of the crowd are pogoing, and the floor flexes dangerously like a trampoline.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
• But this weekend’s air-power flex is disturbing all the same for proponents of a free and stable Asia.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024