How to Use lat in a Sentence

lat

noun
  • Lange dealt with a lat strain last season.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Stick to your glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves, traps, and lats.
    — K. Aleisha Fetters, SELF, 21 July 2018
  • Sit down on a lat pulldown machine.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 9 Jan. 2026
  • One of them landed on the disabled list with a strained right lat.
    — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Move your body weight on a foam roller to loosen up tightness in your quads, calves, lats, and more.
    — Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Engaging your lats also helps to keep the weight close to the body.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Perez, the Tigers' top prospect, has been out with a right lat strain since March.
    — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2018
  • With your lats spread, try and rotate slightly to touch your left elbow to the right knee.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 25 July 2023
  • Today that means sets of pullups in a weighted vest, which will rock his lats and forearms.
    — Kristine Thomason, Men's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Every rep also works the chest, shoulders, and lats.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Pull-downs train your back muscles, including your lats, traps, and rear delts.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Liang told the women to squeeze their lats, and follow from their back muscles, not their arms.
    — Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times, 29 July 2018
  • Your shoulders should be pulled down and back, locking in the lats, at the bottom of the lift.
    — Erin Warwood, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Pull upward, squeezing the lat muscle in your upper back at the top.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Add these three moves to your morning or evening routine to train and maintain your lats, abs, and glutes.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2018
  • When a lat strain delayed the start to his season, Enright laughed.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Cueto last pitched April 14, then was sidelined by a strained right lat.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 9 May 2021
  • Keep your lats engaged and arms hanging at your sides, and ground through your right foot to maintain your balance.
    — Megan Falk, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
  • As his right hand firmly clutches your right hand, his left hand runs from your tricep to your lats, searching.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
  • For the Angels, the strained body parts are a biceps, a groin, a lat, a hamstring and an oblique.
    — Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 2 May 2017
  • Stand with your back to a machine with a pulley (like a lat pulldown or mixed cable machine).
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Then try to flex your lats; think about twisting your arms so your elbows face directly behind you.
    — Men's Health, 11 July 2023
  • Lange sustained an avulsion in his right lat during a minor-league game with the Tigers.
    — Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The team said deGrom had inflammation in his right lat and wouldn’t throw for the next few days.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 5 May 2021
  • Seabold pitched two-thirds of an inning before exiting with right-lat tightness.
    — Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • Some changes are helping with that as well, as Weathers has been focused on taking care of his lat and back.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Some changes are helping with that as well, as Weathers has been focused on taking care of his lat and back.
    — Gary Phillips, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Gil missed the first four months of 2025 due to a high-grade lat strain that cropped up during spring training.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Friedrich has not pitched this season due to a strained lat and, more recently, elbow tenderness.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2017
  • The point isn't that this will replicate exactly lunges with kettlebells in your hands or a lat pull-down machine.
    — Matt Jancer, Wired, 31 May 2020

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