How to Use adduction in a Sentence

adduction

noun
  • Glide your straight legs out in abduction and squeeze them back in adduction towards your midline.
    — Michelle Ward Trainor, PEOPLE.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • One of the main functions of the chest is adduction, or driving your arms to the midline of your torso to squeeze the pecs.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022
  • That way, your main focus can be on the movement that will grow your chest, adduction, rather than the stress your joints face under load.
    — Men's Health, 6 June 2022
  • In this case, shoulder adduction—or moving your arm inward across your body—is the main function of your pec muscles.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Asymmetry in the bone structure also indicated that the limbs were used for adduction, the pull down motion used in the human breast stroke.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2019
  • This do-it-all band acts as a hip abductor (helping with movement away from the body), assists with hip adduction (movement toward the body), and stabilizes the knee while running.
    — Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2016
  • While their primary job is adduction, pulling your legs toward the midline of your body — think squeezing your knees together — their overall function is far more expansive.
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The pec major is tasked with adduction of the arm (movement in toward the body) and rotation of the arm forward, along with assisting other muscles in pulling the trunk up when your arms are above your head.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
  • No finger ab/adduction, only two DOFs in the thumb—no chance of doing anything human-level dexterous here.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The results were surprising; subjects running barefoot showed less hip adduction (inward rotation), hip internal rotation, and pelvic drop (when hips sway from side to side, dropping one side down).
    — Shelby Carpenter, Outside Online, 26 May 2015
  • Cable hip adduction targets the adductor muscles effectively using a cable machine.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Unlike a hinge joint that moves only (for the most part) forward and backward, like the knee, the shape of the ball-and-socket joint in the hip allows for flexion, extension, internal and external rotation, abduction, and adduction.
    — SELF, 22 Feb. 2019
  • In one such study, conducted by researchers at the University of Salford, runners who were trained to increase their step rate by 10 percent exhibited reductions in hip adduction, lateral pelvic tilt, and pain.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Utilizing Equipment for Hip Adductor Workouts The adductor machine and cable machine work to directly target muscles and enhance the efficiency of hip adduction exercise.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025

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