How to Use hip bone in a Sentence

hip bone

noun

• Generally, the stick should reach from the ground up to around the hip bone.
  — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• To find your best fit, measure your torso from the top of your hip bone to the base of your neck.
  — Elaine Murphy, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2022
• Use your hip bone as a guide for adjusting the seat height.
  — Haley Shapley, SELF, 13 Oct. 2018
• Tiny gold charms dangling from Paris Hilton’s hip bone.
  — Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Harper's Magazine, 21 May 2023
• The straps are meant to be worn hiked up around the hip bones, just as the smoky-eyed male and female models wore them on the Spring 1997 runway.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2018
• The last bones to go, the ilium and sacrum (the big hip bones atop the skeleton) are the heaviest bone structure.
  — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Side Stretch Targets a lower back muscle that runs from the top of your hip bone to the bottom rib.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 2 July 2011
• The pubic bone and hip bones should be heavily pressed into the mat.
  — Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
• A few days later, on January 18, a person walking on the same area of the beach found a piece of a hip bone.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
• Its ribs are showing through its skin, hip bones jutting out atop spindly legs.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
• Bend right elbow and row dumbbell up and back until wrist is near hip bone.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• Okeke missed all of training camp with a hip bone bruise and Moore recently sprained an ankle.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• The Hips Yep, even the hips can be super sensitive on men — so give him the best tease ever by kissing his hip bones.
  — Redbook, 30 Oct. 2017
• Stand up straight, exhale (no sucking in that gut!) and with a soft tape measure record your girth an inch or two above your hip bones.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2018
• Skin farther up the neck to remove the neck meat, if desired. Find the floating rib, between the back of the chest cavity and forward of the hip bone.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
• Five-point harnesses and booster seats position a lap belt over the top of the hip bones, low and flat against the thighs, so the child’s bones absorb the impact.
  — Lauren Gravitz, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• Clearly, the Kryptonian’s knee bone is connected to the hip bone, and that’s key.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2018
• To test the curing process, the caladores puncture, in rapid succession, four specific spots—the hock, next to the hip bone and twice around a joint of the hip and femur.
  — Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• Gerber has a number of tattoos, including some barbed wire art on his hand and a gun on his hip bone.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• Just as the leg bone is connected to the hip bone, product makers want to be connected to Skelly.
  — Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Ogunbowale has not played since Aug. 6 due to an oblique injury where the abdominal muscle meets the hip bone.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
• When loaded and properly adjusted, the pack should lie flat against your back with the hip belt wrapping around your hip bones.
  — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2020
• Resting her left arm against her hip bone helps keep it more stable, she's discovered.
  — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2021
• The sacrum consists of two vertebrae that form a large triangular bone at the bottom of the spine, acting as a wedge between the hip bones.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• The whale is modeled from a partial skeleton, which includes 13 vertebrae, four ribs and one hip bone.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• The dress was undeniably bold thanks to an asymmetrical design and a slit that began at the hip bone.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 31 July 2020
• Several, including some vertebrae, a hip bone and the leg bones were stained green.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2018
• Another tip: Make sure that your hip bones stay level throughout.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 27 Feb. 2018
• By the time it was diagnosed, Jackson’s cancer was in his hip bone, femur, the capsule around his hip joint and in his gluteus and quadricep muscles.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• Lift your torso tall, straighten the curve of your spine and rotate your pelvis backward — imagine an axle sticking straight out of your hip bone and rotate your hip around it, so that the front comes up and the back goes down.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024