How to Use meridian in a Sentence

meridian

noun
  • Olivia Parrott has spent much of her summer in the woods, on street meridians and even on top of roofs.
    — Mark Lawton, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The school of thought emphasizes meridians, specific lines along the body.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Shiatsu massage focuses on key points (or meridians) in the body.
    — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Their prime meridian is still used today and is where the Meridiani Planum region of Mars gets its name.
    — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2016
  • The car continued up the berm in the meridian and became airborne, police determined.
    — Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2024
  • Those westgoers flocking into the arid lands beyond the 100th meridian would see their dreams dashed by spindly crops.
    — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • In addition, the scraping motion is known to stimulate meridians in the skin– similar to cupping– which allows the body to detox.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The meridians surface at roughly 360 places identified as acupuncture points.
    — Deborah Storey | For Al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The movements help with blood circulation and the body’s meridians — which in Chinese medicine refer to the pathways that energy, or qi, flows through.
    — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • These meridians are thought to correspond to specific organs and, when stimulated, can strengthen blood flow and prompt the release of certain hormones.
    — Maria Carter, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
  • And how the ground on which Clint Eastwood and others shot was by the Mediterranean, not beneath the American blood meridian.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 23 May 2022
  • From an Eastern perspective, acupuncture works by balancing the flow of qi (chi), also known as energy, which moves through meridians, or channels in your body.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The meridians, and the acupuncture points found along them, flow through every nerve, muscle, tendon, blood vessel and organ - connecting our head to our toes and everything in-between.
    — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
  • For those seeking a more gentle water treatment, aquatic energy balancing works with the chakras and meridians to clear energy blockages while guests float in the water.
    — Anna Haines, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • By stimulating specific points along the body’s meridians, acupuncture is believed to help regulate the flow of Qi (life energy).
    — Irina Logman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The international date line is on the opposite side of the planet from the Greenwich — or prime — meridian that marks zero degrees longitude.
    — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 18 July 2017
  • Acupressure is derived from traditional Chinese medicine and is based on the belief that there are meridians, or energy channels, that run throughout the body.
    — Nicole Defeudis, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • While traditional acupuncture focuses on the meridians, other forms of the practice include trigger-point acupuncture, also known as ashi acupuncture.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Mine were located on meridians related to the elements of earth and space, which I was told signal a general imbalance between those elements in my life.
    — Kayla Blanton, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The first is an 18-karat pink-gold model on an Arroyo gray calf leather strap with a silvery dial in a grid-style globe pattern, where the meridians and parallels are engraved and polished.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The land west of the 100th meridian, Powell announced, could not support conventional agriculture.
    — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • Radiating out from the center are twelve meridians—the first chronometers were created in order to determine these imaginary time boundaries—which continue on the wide, curved glass found on the caseback.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike acupuncture, where the needles may be almost imperceptible, and are applied along Chinese-style meridian lines, dry needling targets knotted tissue and other pain sources head-on.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • What’s more, that meridian trench is supposedly not the narrow one seen in the X-Wing exhaust port bombing run (despite shots showing fighters approaching the meridian).
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The metal components, including the meridians orbiting globes that rotate on an axis, are made by a variety of English craftspeople, but all of them are hand-finished in the studio.
    — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The treatment plan utilizes both body and facial points, and prior to facial needling, micro-current (a therapeutic electrical stimulation) is used on the muscles and meridians of the face to both boost the Qi and drain fluids.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Some Eastern Orthodox churches use astronomical observations according to the meridian of Jerusalem, the department says.
    — Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026

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