How to Use midline in a Sentence

midline

noun
  • Your shoulders run from the midline of the body all the way across the arm.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Then cross the right knee towards the midline of the body and bring the arms down to meet the right knee.
    Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • That is the very concept of midline, of left and right.
    R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Use both hands to guide the knee toward your chest and across the midline.
    Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Chest muscles bring the arms toward the midline of the body.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Abduction is the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body.
    Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2019
  • Place the curved notch of the board where your collar bones meet, and drag it up the midline of the throat up to (but not over) your chin.
    Emily Rekstis, Allure, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Place the curved notch of the board where your collarbones meet, and drag it up the midline of the throat up to (but not over) your chin.
    Jessica Chia, Allure, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Kneel next to it, grab the band, engage your abs, and squeeze your chest to pull the band in toward your midline.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022
  • The feet, meanwhile, were located at the midline, where the two hemispheres of the brain meet.
    Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Focus on the midline on the top of your head, and at the base of your skull, where there are acupressure points.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • From there, pull the elbows back to the midline of the body, keep them closely tucked into your sides.
    Ben Walker, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Reposition the right foot to your left, crossing the midline of the body.
    Kyle Norman, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Make sure the water line returns to the midline of the pool’s skimmer openings.
    Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Grasp the short side of the rectangle farther from you and fold it toward the midline of the dough slab, aligning the sides.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Draw your ribs into the midline of your body and sweep your arms up, shoulder-width apart.
    Leslie Barrie, Woman's Day, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Later that month, Baribeau sawed through a man’s sternum near the edge instead of the midline.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • One of the main functions of the chest is adduction, or driving your arms to the midline of your torso to squeeze the pecs.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022
  • What sets them apart is the compression zipper which runs the midline of each bag.
    Rebecca Norris, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • With your left leg, slowly pull the band away from your midline then come back to neutral.
    Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2020
  • Keeping elbows close to your body, bring weighs in to midline of body and cross your right dumbbell over the left.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health.com, 10 June 2019
  • With each breath in, your belly inflates, your ribs in the front and the back move away from your midline, and your back expands.
    Sivan Fagan, SELF, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Britney swerved over the midline, nearly hit a car, and drove into a ditch.
    Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
  • That is far from the midline of the Taiwan Strait that separates the mainland and island.
    Te-Ping Chen, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Step back with one leg, crossing your body's midline to the other side of yourself and lower your knee to the floor.
    Men's Health, 5 May 2023
  • Drive your feet and knees outward, away from your midline and against the resistance bands.
    Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The key, when shooting from the left corner, is to place your kick on the ball's right hand side, a couple of inches below the midline.
    Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • Their score was reduced by Chock’s slip on a midline step sequence.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Shifts fixation across midline (moves gaze from left to right).
    Emily Cook, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Abduction is the opposite of adduction: Instead of bringing the limb back to the body, abduction refers to a limb moving away from the midline of the body.
    Greg Presto, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022

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