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
• On the exhale, press into your hands to move the space between your shoulder blades to the sky and round your back as your tailbone drops down.
  — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 28 July 2024
• Place a foam roller beneath your shoulder blades, keeping your tailbone on the ground.
  — Jenny McCoy, Outside Online, 31 Aug. 2022
• Adding to Harold’s diagnostic variables, the bony spine extends to the tailbone, but the spinal cord ends at the first lumbar vertebra, roughly at the belly button.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024