How to Use rib cage in a Sentence

rib cage

noun
  • Bend at your elbows to row hands to the sides of the rib cage.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 11 May 2023
  • Hayes was hit in the head, his left rib cage and torso.
    oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Keep your arm close to your body and bring your palm to your rib cage.
    Mallory Creveling, Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Sale has been out with a fracture in his right rib cage.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 12 July 2022
  • In their quest to find the cause, doctors found and biopsied a lump on the right side of her rib cage.
    Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 11 June 2019
  • She was shot in the side under her rib cage with a pistol.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The Plano, Texas, man had sustained wounds to his rib cage as well as the back of his head and torso.
    Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2021
  • Red Sox lefty Chris Sale has a stress fracture in his rib cage and will miss the start of the 2022 season.
    USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Keeping your hips and shoulders square to the floor, row the right dumbbell to your rib cage.
    Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Once the legs are engaged, align the upper half of the body by lifting spine, rib cage and chest.
    New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Press your low back into the floor and depress your rib cage.
    Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 7 July 2020
  • Stay loose and allow your arms to swing, rib cage to rotate, and hips to move side-to-side.
    John Goldthorp, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The most popular ribs are baby back ribs, which come from the top part of the rib cage.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Then, row your left elbow back, bringing the weight to your rib cage.
    Mallory Creveling, Health, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Moments later, he was struck with a less-lethal round to the back left side of his rib cage.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The 27-year-old Dahl missed all of June for Texas with rib cage and upper back issues.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • This was having his chest cracked open, his rib cage pulled apart and his heart stopped.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
  • An officer pressed a Taser to his rib cage and fired, then fired again.
    Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
  • To hear Foscue explain it, a nerve in the rib cage area was compressed.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Here Lee drove one last punch into the rib cage of the radical body politic.
    Randal Doane, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • McMahon took a shot to his rib cage while trying to fight through a double screen and fell to the floor.
    Jake Lourim, The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Keep your chin down, looking just ahead to you (to keep your spine in alignment), and rib cage flat.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 25 July 2023
  • Her chicken’s rib cage rises and falls at a rapid rate.
    Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Your forearms should be nice and tall and your elbow up against your rib cage.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Grant was hit twice near the rib cage, the El Paso Times reported.
    Tim Elfrink, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Make a fist and push firmly forward behind the dog’s rib cage.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This time on the mend from a stress fracture in his right rib cage, Sale is in a different spot.
    Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
  • Your core muscles control the movement in your spine, pelvis and rib cage.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But he was knocked out of the game and taken to the hospital after an injury to his rib cage.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Take a few deep breaths, and record your rib cage's measurement while inhaling.
    Bebe Hodges, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024

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