How to Use deltoid in a Sentence

deltoid

noun
  • This move primarily works your lats, rhomboids, and traps, plus your core, biceps, and deltoids.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Your lateral deltoid, the middle part of your shoulder, helps raise your arms to the side and assists with reaching.
    — Elizabeth Millard, Cpt, SELF, 19 Nov. 2024
  • This works the medial deltoid, rear deltoid, scapula, and biceps.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2019
  • Barkley uncoils, and then quickly dips under the weight and back into squat, slipping the bar under his chin and onto his deltoids.
    — Ralph D. Russo, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • This move targets your pecs, deltoids, biceps, hamstrings, core, and glutes, says De La Rue.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The anterior deltoid makes up the front head of the shoulder, and rotates the shoulder joint by drawing the arm inward.
    — Tyler Hatfield, Men's Health, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Van Der Beek’s deltoids and obliques are much more defined after the dance training, possibly from all the twists and lifts.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Your upper traps, rear deltoids, and rotator cuff muscles will also assist in the rowing movement.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • The deltoids sit over the shoulder joint and connect to the humerus (upper arm) and the clavicle (collarbone), says Kalsched.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
  • This push-up also works the anterior deltoid, vital for movement and power when punching forward.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 2 June 2024
  • Spending long periods of time working at a desk or hunched over a smartphone can cause your deltoids (also known as delts or shoulders) and lower back to round forward.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
  • On an exhale, engage glutes and drive through all four corners of feet to press hips up toward the ceiling, allowing rear deltoids to lean back across the top of the bench slightly.
    — Megan Falk, Women's Health, 28 June 2023
  • Turay had dislocated his ankle, tore the deltoid ligament in his right ankle and suffered a fracture.
    — Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The worry is for injury to the syndesmotic ligament that holds the fibula and tibia together, as well as the deltoid ligament.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2019
  • This exercise works your shoulder's accessory muscles in addition to your deltoids.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 8 May 2017
  • When the body is sedentary, muscles—including the glutes, but also the deltoids, pectorals, hamstrings, and more—aren't engaged or working, Bach said.
    — Alyssa Hui, Health, 2 Aug. 2024
  • In November, Maddison injured his deltoid ligament and missed almost three months.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Shots given in muscles — like the deltoid in the upper arm where flu shots are usually given — tend to be more painful than ones that aren't injected into the muscle, Stewart said.
    — Erica Sweeney, Teen Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
  • By the end of 2021, more than half a billion doses of the COVID shots had been plunged into our deltoids.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Deadlifts already work the posterior chain, or the muscles at the rear of the body like the hamstrings, gluteus maximus, trapezius, posterior deltoids, and erector spinae.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 5 Dec. 2018
  • An ankle sprain is less commonly caused by an eversion injury, where the foot turns outward and tears the deltoid ligament (the main stabilizer of the ankle joint) on the inside of the ankle.
    — Laura Schober, Health, 16 Jan. 2025
  • These include your latissimus dorsi (lats, the broadest of your back muscles), rear deltoids (a shoulder muscle), rhomboids (upper back muscles), and biceps (upper arm muscles).
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Then, the overhead press portion adds upper-body work, requiring strength from your anterior and posterior deltoids (front and back of the shoulders), biceps, and triceps, says Mansour.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 May 2018
  • Skattebo dislocated his ankle, fractured his fibula and ruptured his deltoid ligament on the play in question, all of which will combine to sideline him for the remainder of the regular season.
    — Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This combination of exercises will hit your triceps, biceps, pectoralis muscles, and muscles in the shoulders and upper back, including the rhomboids, deltoids, rhomboids, traps, and lats.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Flu shots typically go into the upper arm (specifically the deltoid muscle), which means having a removable layer or avoiding the sweaters altogether might prevent some hassle.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The rolling out movement primarily works your lats and deltoids, whereas the second half of the movement—the rolling in portion—really targets your core, specifically your rectus abdominis, says Brewer.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 Dec. 2018
  • The scene was indeed a fake-out, with Steve’s romantic rival, Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), and his stealth deltoids catching Steve in the nick of time, teeing up the group’s final victory.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But things could have turned out differently after Rebmann suffered a spiral fracture in the fibula and a complete tear of the deltoid ligaments in her left leg during a winter showcase in California during her junior year.
    — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • Dumbbell Lateral Raise play iconThe triangle icon that indicates to play Your middle deltoid may be the hardest working muscle during this movement, but your upper traps are working, too.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 21 June 2023

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