How to Use hip bone in a Sentence

hip bone

noun
  • Massage straight across to the left side for about one minute. Work your way down to the left hip bone and back up to your belly button for about one minute.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The high waist slims creases and hugs snugly above the hip bone.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Its ribs are showing through its skin, hip bones jutting out atop spindly legs.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
  • Skin farther up the neck to remove the neck meat, if desired. Find the floating rib, between the back of the chest cavity and forward of the hip bone.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Bend right elbow and row dumbbell up and back until wrist is near hip bone.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Among them was a hip bone graft to cover a chunk of bone that was ripped off in one bite from the bear.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Generally, the stick should reach from the ground up to around the hip bone.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • To find your best fit, measure your torso from the top of your hip bone to the base of your neck.
    — Elaine Murphy, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Your sweaters and cardigans should hit right at the top of your hip bone for the sake of clean lines in the outfit.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The pubic bone and hip bones should be heavily pressed into the mat.
    — Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The foot bone connects to the leg bone, the leg bone connects to the hip bone, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
    — PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The foot bone connects to the leg bone, the leg bone connects to the hip bone, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
    — PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The foot bone connects to the leg bone, the leg bone connects to the hip bone, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
    — PC Magazine, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Resting her left arm against her hip bone helps keep it more stable, she's discovered.
    — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The four-bladed head had severed big arteries and was bedded against the hip bone.
    — Fred Bear, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026
  • Gerber has a number of tattoos, including some barbed wire art on his hand and a gun on his hip bone.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Okeke missed all of training camp with a hip bone bruise and Moore recently sprained an ankle.
    — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • This sore developed an infection, which spread into her hip bone.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That point is generally about halfway between the lowest rib and the tip of the hip bone.
    — Michelle Pugle, Health, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Several, including some vertebrae, a hip bone and the leg bones were stained green.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2018
  • The last bones to go, the ilium and sacrum (the big hip bones atop the skeleton) are the heaviest bone structure.
    — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Side Stretch Targets a lower back muscle that runs from the top of your hip bone to the bottom rib.
    — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 2 July 2011
  • When loaded and properly adjusted, the pack should lie flat against your back with the hip belt wrapping around your hip bones.
    — Ryan Wichelns, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Researchers found that women who drank tea had slightly higher total hip bone density than those who did not.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 7 May 2026
  • Researchers found that women who drank tea had slightly higher total hip bone density than those who did not.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Slowly work your hands up toward your rib bones and continue massaging straight across your abdomen and down to the left hip bone.
    — Julia Ries Wexler, SELF, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Eventually, an infection in the sore reached Figueroa’s hip bone.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That turned out to be incredibly helpful three years ago when Myers fell, cracking her hip bone.
    — Nicole Stracek, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The dress was undeniably bold thanks to an asymmetrical design and a slit that began at the hip bone.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 31 July 2020
  • Clearly, the Kryptonian’s knee bone is connected to the hip bone, and that’s key.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2018

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