How to Use hip joint in a Sentence

hip joint

noun
  • It was cut from hip joint to foot.
    — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 28 May 2025
  • The hip joint is one of the largest joints in the human body.
    — SELF, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Place the band in the fold of your hip joint, where the thigh bone meets the pelvis.
    — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Take big, wide steps so that the lunge hinges at the hip joint rather than the knee joint.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 18 Aug. 2025
  • And at first glance, the hip joints appear more human than ape-like.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • This means the hamstrings extend the hip joint as well as flex the knee joint.
    — SI.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The hip joint is second biggest.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Her pelvis hasn’t formed properly due to the extra hip joint.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Hip pain when walking can be a problem with the hip joint or with hip muscles.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Insert a meat thermometer in the turkey thigh near the hip joint.
    — Ana Calderone, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This helps to loosen up the hip flexors and hip joint, which will help with your running or walking stride.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 4 June 2019
  • This exercise not only works the core, but the entire hip joint.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • This position stretches out your glute muscles and opens up your hip joint.
    — Dana Santas, CNN, 1 May 2020
  • Without a hip joint intact, Cannon can’t bear his full weight on his right leg.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Xaco Taco fills its hip joint to serve tortillas made from scratch with happy hour deals.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • Use both hands to guide the knee and foot to produce external rotation at the hip joint.
    — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Each leg contains 6 degrees of freedom, with three hip joints, one knee joint, and two ankle joints.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Certainly, this can happen, but more often the hip joint breaks, which causes the fall.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2022
  • Your glute medius and minimus help keep your hip joint strong and stable, explains Mansour.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This deformity can lead to a tearing of a cartilage in the hip joint called the labrum.
    — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
  • The labrum is a cartilage ring that follows and cushions the outside rim of the socket of a hip joint.
    — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • These exercises target muscle groups that cross the hip joint.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The deep squat stretches all areas of the hip joint and also mobilizes your knee and ankle joints.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Hinge at the hip joint to lower the left foot toward the floor without letting the lower back lose contact with the mat.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
  • This positioning helps release your hip flexors (the muscles on the front of your hip joint).
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And a lot of time walking promotes density in parts of the hip joint that support standing upright.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The labrum is a ring of cartilage that encircles the hip joint socket, helping protect the joint and hold it in place.
    — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The three muscles that make up the rear end—the gluteus minimus, medius and maximus—help move the hip joint and stabilize the pelvis.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The head of the femur (upper leg bone) sits in the acetabulum, a socket in the pelvic bone to create the hip joint.
    — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Hip pain with walking has various causes that affect the bones, joints, tendons, or muscles of the hip joint.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024

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