How to Use erector in a Sentence

erector

noun
  • Isn’t that the dream of every kid whose owned an erector set?
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
  • The erector spinae work to extend and laterally flex the spine.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The entire spinal column is lined on either side with very strong erector muscles that support the core.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 2019
  • Nor did the erector set of metal scaffolding that restorers had built before the fire crash and knock the walls down.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But when the focus of bending is switched to the ankles, those erector muscles aren't the major support.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • Ivanka has put down her erector sets and now has an official role in her father’s White House.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 10 May 2017
  • The core is your midsection, with spinal erectors that hold up the spine, and abdominals and obliques that help rotate the trunk.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 29 Apr. 2017
  • On Wadsworth Terrace, one building’s foundation is propped up by an erector set of stilts.
    — C.j. Hughes, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
  • The mobile transporter and erector will make the missile difficult to locate.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2017
  • These are, most specifically, the muscles of your upper and mid-back (traps and lats), erector spinae, glutes, and hamstrings.
    — Men's Health, 11 July 2023
  • There are a couple of ways to minimize erector tube/turret sticking while zeroing.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Along the way, the robots — which resemble mobile erector sets — get more nimble and functional.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Larger tubes also leave more room for turret adjustments, but only if erector tubes are not also enlarged.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Pulleyblank, a steel erector heading to work in London, then took over distributing the supplies.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • IRBMs look like small space rockets, and are launched from a transporter/erector/launcher towed by a tractor trailer.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2019
  • This exercise targets the majority of your major back muscles, such as your rhomboids, lats, traps, and erectors, as well as your biceps.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This exercise targets the majority of your major back muscles, such as your rhomboids, lats, traps, and erectors, as well as your biceps.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Earlier this month, the company tweeted that its transporter erector launcher was en route to Kodiak.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
  • The explosion destroyed the rocket and the transporter erector tower that was holding the rocket in place, and also knocked over one of the two lightning towers at the site.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2026
  • The rocket exploded without warning in a tremendous blast that destroyed the booster, its payload and the rocket's transporter erector.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The movement also strengthens the transverse abdominis − a deep muscle that stabilizes the core − and a group of muscles that runs along the spine known as the erector spinae.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • In his free time, Calleia built Meccano erector set models and made models of military equipment, bridges and machinery.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Muscles worked during this exercise include the lower back, erector spinae (spine muscles), glutes (buttock muscles) and hamstrings (muscles on backs of thighs).
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Your core also includes your diaphragm, obliques (muscles along the side of your abdomen), transverse abdominis (your deepest core muscles), erector spinae, and more.
    — Manee Magee, SELF, 7 May 2022
  • For return to flight, Blue Origin will not rebuilding the transporter-erector, but will instead use a crane to lift the rocket vertical on its launch mount.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
  • Superman Superman is an all-over body exercise that targets your erector spinae and core, alongside your upper back muscles, shoulders and glutes.
    — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The retract system ensures the transporter erector is quickly positioned away from New Glenn at liftoff to provide flyout clearance.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • For starters, this move targets many major muscles at once, including the glutes, hamstrings, quads, spinal erectors (muscles that line the spine), core, and upper back, says Borden.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 24 Jan. 2019
  • That's not wrong—but deadlift variations target your entire posterior chain, which includes your spinal erectors, low back muscles, and even your bigger back muscles like your delts and traps.
    — Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • To expedite a return to flight, Limp said, the company is not rebuilding the same pad and is skipping construction of a new transporter-erector (which would take a long time).
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026

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