How to Use midline in a Sentence

midline

noun
  • Use both hands to guide the knee toward your chest and across the midline.
    — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Your shoulders run from the midline of the body all the way across the arm.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Then cross the right knee towards the midline of the body and bring the arms down to meet the right knee.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Shifts fixation across midline (moves gaze from left to right).
    — Emily Cook, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
  • With your left leg, slowly pull the band away from your midline then come back to neutral.
    — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2020
  • Draw your ribs into the midline of your body and sweep your arms up, shoulder-width apart.
    — Leslie Barrie, Woman's Day, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Abduction is the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body.
    — Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2019
  • What sets them apart is the compression zipper which runs the midline of each bag.
    — Rebecca Norris, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Their score was reduced by Chock’s slip on a midline step sequence.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Britney swerved over the midline, nearly hit a car, and drove into a ditch.
    — Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Drive your feet and knees outward, away from your midline and against the resistance bands.
    — Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Kneel next to it, grab the band, engage your abs, and squeeze your chest to pull the band in toward your midline.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022
  • From there, pull the elbows back to the midline of the body, keep them closely tucked into your sides.
    — Ben Walker, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Bend leg and arm and bring to midline under torso until elbow and knee touch.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Row upper arms up in line with torso with palms facing toward the midline.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Move your leg towards the midline against the resistance.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Keeping elbows close to your body, bring weighs in to midline of body and cross your right dumbbell over the left.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health.com, 10 June 2019
  • Focus on the midline on the top of your head, and at the base of your skull, where there are acupressure points.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Make sure the water line returns to the midline of the pool’s skimmer openings.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Reposition the right foot to your left, crossing the midline of the body.
    — Kyle Norman, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Place the curved notch of the board where your collar bones meet, and drag it up the midline of the throat up to (but not over) your chin.
    — Emily Rekstis, Allure, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The feet, meanwhile, were located at the midline, where the two hemispheres of the brain meet.
    — Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Later that month, Baribeau sawed through a man’s sternum near the edge instead of the midline.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Place the curved notch of the board where your collarbones meet, and drag it up the midline of the throat up to (but not over) your chin.
    — Emily Rekstis, Allure, 14 Apr. 2022
  • With each breath in, your belly inflates, your ribs in the front and the back move away from your midline, and your back expands.
    — Sivan Fagan, SELF, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Step back with one leg, crossing your body's midline to the other side of yourself and lower your knee to the floor.
    — Men's Health, 5 May 2023
  • Bend that arm to row the weight up beneath your shoulder, then extend your arm back, behind the midline of your trunk.
    — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Maintain a strong midline by pressing your legs together and pointing the toes about three feet in front of you.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Curl arms up toward the shoulders, keeping palms facing the midline and upper arms still.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One of the main functions of the chest is adduction, or driving your arms to the midline of your torso to squeeze the pecs.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022

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