How to Use glute in a Sentence

glute

noun
  • My glutes had grown a full inch.
    — Jenna Anderson, Health, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Reach the glutes back to tap the chair with your right glute.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Drive through your heels to stand and squeeze your glutes at the top.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Then, stand up with the weight and squeeze your glutes at the top.
    — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Squeeze your glutes and push through your heels to stand up tall again.
    — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 11 Dec. 2025
  • If your quads, glutes, or core are weak, that can cause knee pain.
    — Caitlin Carlson, Women's Health, 15 May 2023
  • Curl your heels toward your glutes.
    — Jim Diehl Cscs, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
  • On each stride, lift your knees high and touch your glute with your heel.
    — Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2022
  • These lunges target the glutes rather than the quads.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Squeeze your glutes at the top, then lower back down.
    — Jim Diehl Cscs, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
  • And sitting on your butt all day doesn’t work these glutes.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Push your hips forward and squeeze the glute of the back leg.
    — Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Keep your core engaged and push through your glutes to stand.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Push off from your toes, and keep your glutes and core engaged.
    — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 25 July 2024
  • This move targets your quads, glutes, obliques and arms at once.
    — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Bend your right heel in toward your glutes and flex the right foot.
    — NBC News, 2 May 2018
  • Stand tall and squeeze your left glute and quad to finish the swing.
    — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Stand up tall and squeeze your glutes, with dumbbells at your sides.
    — NBC News, 17 May 2018
  • Engage your core and glutes so that your body is in a straight line.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Drive through your heels to stand, squeezing your glutes at the top.
    — Currie Engel, Health, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Push through both feet and squeeze your glutes to straighten your knees.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
  • Keep spine straight and hinge forward to feel a stretch in glute and hip.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Press through your feet to stand up, squeezing your glutes on the way up.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Then press down through the heels to stand back up while squeezing your glutes.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 1 July 2019
  • Bend your heel towards your glute, and lift that raised leg off to the side.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This routine will work your glutes, legs, chest, back, arms, and core.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Squeeze your abs, clench your glutes, and keep your body in a straight line from head to heels.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The mid-rise waist and roomy cut through the glutes and thighs keep the fit relaxed.
    — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Your glutes are the muscles that make up your buttocks area.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Massage your glutes by rolling back and forth over the muscle.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023

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