How to Use pelvis in a Sentence

pelvis

noun
  • In this position your pelvis and hips should be level and facing the floor.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2020
  • While keeping your back flat against the floor, tilt your pelvis back and lift your hips off the ground by squeezing your glutes.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The woman’s pelvis and a wrist were fractured in the collision.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Raise your pelvis to the sky, then grasp your hands together, underneath your back, resting on the floor.
    Marie Bladt, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • Think about sitting at a true 90 degree angle so that your low back and pelvis are straight and not rounded.
    Jay Dicharry, Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Reach left arm forward and underneath torso, slightly lifting and rotating the pelvis.
    Ashley Mateo, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Carriere helped Williams after a fall left her with a hairline fracture in her pelvis and excruciating pain.
    Jessica Saggio | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The 64-year-old man suffered a broken pelvis when he was pushed from his bicycle on the trail in Kensington, the police said.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Ilana, still recovering from an injured jaw, a broken pelvis and partial hearing loss, has joined Zangauker on the streets.
    Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • The adductors are five muscles that bring your leg inward and help stabilize the pelvis and help internally and externally rotate the hips.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The Cowboys put Lee on IR prior to the start of the season after not taking part in training camp with a pelvis injury.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The medical examiner found that Rosenbaum was shot in the groin and back — which fractured his pelvis and perforated his right lung and liver — and his left hand.
    Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The officer and physician are looking at an X-ray image, which shows a Ku Klux Klan member where the man’s spine and pelvis should be.
    Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The medical examiner found that Rosenbaum was shot in the groin and back -- which fractured his pelvis and perforated his right lung and liver -- and his left hand.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2020
  • According to the initial incident report on Sept. 13, Vega suffered two gunshot wounds to his chest and a third shot to his pelvis.
    Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The initial movements lay the foundations by using stationary exercises to mobilize the hips and pelvis in all three planes of motion, Ms. Maybury says.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
  • One of the shots struck the woman in the pelvis and killed her.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Place the band in the fold of your hip joint, where the thigh bone meets the pelvis.
    Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Push through your heels and lift the pelvis up to the ceiling.
    Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Lee pushed the man to the ground, breaking his pelvis and a rib.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The hamstring muscles stretch from the pelvis to the shin bone, down the back side of the thigh.
    Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The cancer has been found in my spine and pelvis as well.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The sacroiliac joints are in the hip, where the spine and pelvis connect.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • The second his pelvis hit the stage, the stadium roared.
    Tess Garcia, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2023
  • DeAndre Thomas, who was 15 at the time, was struck in the pelvis.
    Dan Morse, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • That, of course, is not normal since your pelvis is not a bar.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Keep the pelvis tucked down, and lean slightly forward.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 9 Jan. 2023
  • His brother-in-law was hit once in the pelvis and survived.
    Laurence Du Sault, ProPublica, 7 July 2022
  • The first shot to Joseph Rosenbaum fractures his pelvis.
    Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • This cue creates more of a tilt to your pelvis that will stretch out the hamstrings more.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 20 July 2022

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