How to Use tailbone in a Sentence

tailbone

noun
  • Noonan placed her tailbone against the lip of the counter.
    Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Sit on your tailbone with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 10 Apr. 2019
  • His hand went to the small of my back, tracing the space just above my tailbone.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2022
  • Try to come all the way up to your tailbone, like a boat pose in yoga.
    Mallory Creveling, Health.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Skin around the hind knee, and make a slice up the rear leg, along the rump roast, diverting around the tailbone.
    Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The penalty is a firm knock on the tailbone, and the rule is strictly enforced.
    Gerald Kloss, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2017
  • Arch your back and lift your head and tailbone up towards the ceiling to stretch the chest.
    Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Lift both hands off the ground so that your tailbone is the only point of contact with the ground.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Tuck your tailbone and engage your core, butt, and quads.
    Amy Marturana, SELF, 2 May 2019
  • Switch legs and then open them wide and out to each side, keeping the tailbone down and stomach pulled in and up.
    Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Lie on the roller with your spine supported from head to tailbone.
    Lauren Roxburgh, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • Think about stacking your spine from your tailbone to your neck.
    Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Mann fell hard on his tailbone and was still hurting after the game.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Keep your back flat and your tailbone pointed down towards the ground.
    Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Lay flat on your back with your hands under your tailbone.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Place your hands on your shins, relax your shoulders, and reach the tailbone toward the bed.
    Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Press your heels firmly into the ground, and lift your tailbone toward the sky.
    Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Davis injured his lower tailbone in the second half of last week’s win against the New York Knicks.
    Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Sarah fell on a steep section of trail in the White Clouds, injuring her tailbone.
    Cindy Chojnacky, idahostatesman, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The remnant that remains is the tailbone, also called the coccyx.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Your pelvic floor is comprised of the muscles that run from your pubic bone to your tailbone and from sit bone to sit bone.
    Tiffany Ayuda, Health.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • To keep your lower back flat, tuck your tailbone under (toward the floor) a bit.
    Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 3 July 2018
  • By birth, the tail has disappeared and the vertebrae fused to form the coccyx or tailbone.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The cancerous mass in her lung had already spread to her tailbone.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2021
  • Lay your back on the roller so that your entire spine is supported from your tailbone to your head.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Designed with hip and tailbone pads, these pants are durable for rough play and will help keep players safe while in use.
    Casey Clark, Parents, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Tuck your chin in toward your chest and tailbone under.
    Philly.com, 19 June 2018
  • Place a foam roller beneath your shoulder blades, keeping your tailbone on the ground.
    Jenny McCoy, Outside Online, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Then, lift the legs towards the ceiling just as high as the legs can remain straight with the whole spine from head to tailbone stable on the reformer .
    Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Next, tuck the tailbone and lift it back off the floor one vertebra at a time until the torso forms a straight line from shoulders to knees.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024

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