How to Use sagittal in a Sentence

sagittal

adjective

• To work the sagittal plane, drive your hips forward and bring your hands overhead.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
• Most of us spend a lot of time in the sagittal plane both in everyday life and also in our workouts.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 12 Mar. 2022
• Distance running mostly takes place in what’s called the sagittal plane.
  — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2020
• But the most important one for boot fitting is the sagittal plane: the forward flexion of your ankle joint.
  — Anna Fiorentino, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2022
• Then, in the riskiest part of the process, surgeons separated the sagittal sinus, an area beneath the brain that allows blood to drain outward from the center of the head.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 13 June 2017
• Lots of us tend to live in the sagittal plane of motion, which involves forward and backward movement, or the flexing or extending of joints, like in a squat.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 12 Feb. 2022
• Like the lateral sling stretch, this is a solid warmup movement because most strength movements occur in the sagittal plane.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2022
• Many of us tend to work primarily in the sagittal plane, which involves frontward and backward movements.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 4 Dec. 2021
• This can done by adding in a curtsy lunge—an advanced variation of reverse lunge that requires you to cross your leg across your body's midline, breaking that sagittal plane.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 9 May 2022
• There are four main types of craniosynostosis, all of which depend on what sutures join together too soon, per the CDC: sagittal, coronal, lambdoid, and metopic.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 6 July 2020
• The workout takes your body through all planes of motion: sagittal (forward/backward), frontal (side to side) and transverse (rotating), as well as fundamental movements like squat, hinge, push and pull.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
• That’s especially important, since most of us spend a lot of time in the sagittal plane, which includes forward and backward motions, like walking, running, and biking.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 21 Feb. 2023
• Tim Anderson underwent successful surgery this morning in Chicago to repair a sagittal band tear on the middle finger of his left hand.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Now that Anderson is ramping back up from surgery to repair a sagittal band tear in his left middle finger and possibly returning next week, the question of whether to keep Andrus at short looms large down the stretch.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• Tim Anderson is healthy again After surgery in early August to repair a sagittal band tear on the middle finger of his left hand, Anderson was slated to return for the final weeks of the season.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
• Washington notes that the side lunge can be particularly useful to help break from typical training patterns, which usually take place in just one plane of movement: the front-to-back of the sagittal plane.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 26 Oct. 2022
• Their biggest injury of note, All-Star Tim Anderson had successful surgery on his middle finger recently to repair a sagittal band tear in his left hand.
  — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Gluteus maximus exercises, on the other hand, work primarily in the sagittal plane of movement.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 12 Sep. 2020
• Hinge joints operate in one plane of motion—the sagittal plane—allowing back-and-forth movement like flexion (curling a dumbbell) and extension (like straightening your leg out in front of you while seated).
  — Elizabeth Millard, SELF, 1 June 2021
• Try this total-body couch workout to get your body moving through all three planes of motion: sagittal (forward/backward), frontal (side to side) and transverse (rotating), as well as fundamental movements: squat, hinge, push and pull.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 1 May 2020
• Kong does have many gorillalike attributes as well, including long muscular arms, a short snout with large canine teeth, and a tall sagittal crest – a ridge of bone on his head that would be the anchor point for some exceptionally strong jaw muscles.
  — Kiersten Formoso, The Conversation, 29 Mar. 2021
• Paul Davis' daughter was born with sagittal craniosynostosis.
  — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 13 Dec. 2017
• Because of its distinct sagittal crest, which served as an anchor for strong cheek muscles, the researchers reasoned the skull belonged to a Paranthropus, similar to Orpheus and Eurydice discovered nearly 25 years earlier.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• The paper reports that damage to a particular white matter pathway in the brain, the right sagittal stratum, is associated with difficulty in perceiving a sarcastic tone of voice.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2015

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