How to Use posterior in a Sentence

posterior

1 of 2 adjective
  • Hinge your hips then scoop up to get a stretch through the posterior chain on the straight leg side.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 3 May 2022
  • Wake up your posterior chain, glutes, and hamstrings with this full body lift.
    — Men's Health, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The posterior end of the branching worm can be seen on the surface of the sponge.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2022
  • One day hit legs, the next chest, and the final was focused on the posterior chain.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
  • Your hamstrings are large muscles that run along the back of your body, or on your posterior chain.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Stay on your hands and knees to focus on the posterior capsule of the shoulder.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Henry had a brain tumor next to his brain stem, on his posterior fossa.
    — The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The hinging movement promotes strength in your posterior chain (the back of your legs, glutes and back).
    — Dana Santas, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
  • This is a great stretch at the back side of your hamstring and backside of your thigh to open up the muscles in the posterior chain.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Press on that one spot and my whole posterior will light up like a first-time visitor to Colorado.
    — Ted Spiker, Esquire, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The horse was composed of thousands of silver sequins, and stretched over one arm and around her back to her posterior.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 July 2023
  • The notches always mark the thickest parts of the bone, on the posterior side—the side that faces the rear of the animal.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 May 2018
  • The dumbbell deadlift really hones in on your posterior chain, or the backside of your body.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The triceps brachii are the largest muscle of the arms, positioned on the posterior (rear) of the upper arm.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The echocardiogram had shown that Mary’s posterior mitral leaflet had blown open.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2022
  • Ecchymosis on the posterior surface of the right and left thighs.
    — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Know that the driver has a posterior hippocampus larger than yours.
    — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Ecchymosis on the posterior surface soft tissues of the right thigh and left shin.
    — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • There's nothing to motivate getting your posterior to the gym quite like a new playlist, ammiright?
    — Micaela English, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2016
  • While your core plays an important role in your posture, the muscles in your posterior chain (or the back of your body) are vital too.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Once formed, the gametes can detach and swim freely, and the posterior ends can regenerate.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Robertson saved the Saints' posterior the past two seasons playing all over the linebacker map.
    — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 15 May 2018
  • The posterior deltoids, or delts, are tucked under the back of your shoulders and help maintain an upright posture.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Take, for example, kettlebell swings, which build up strength in your posterior chain, or the muscles on the backside of your body.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 12 June 2018
  • The target muscle groups are your posterior chain and the back, shoulder, and core muscles that support your rotator cuff.
    — Genevieve Gyulavary Dpt, Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The posterior pharyngeal muscles at the back of the throat are innervated by the vagus nerve.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
  • This less common approach targets posterior heel spurs located near the Achilles tendon on the back of the foot.
    — Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • Anatomically, the retina is an extension of the posterior part of the brain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Pause for three seconds, then come up and repeat five to eight times to decrease tension from your glute towards your hamstring through the back side of the posterior chain.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 14 July 2022
  • Your calf muscles help make up your posterior chain, the group of muscles that run along the back of your body, including those along your spine, your hamstrings, and your glutes.
    — Melissa Matthews, SELF, 23 June 2022

posterior

2 of 2 noun
  • The man squeezed his large posterior into the chair.
  • This will be the right position at which to hold your posterior while skiing.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • She was then dubbed the ultimate bridesmaid and launched many a fan page exalting her pert posterior.
    — Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Women wearing low cut shirts or shorts that barely covered their posteriors.
    — Micaela English, Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2018
  • The sea cucumber's posterior is so much more than an exit hole for digestive waste.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
  • But her new implants — gifts — made her much cheerier, And lifted Gramps, her pants and her posterior.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The round struck an unidentified male in his posterior, and the male turned and ran away while limping, the affidavit said.
    — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The car’s most eye-catching feature is arguably its tapered posterior.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But before the game was over, Putin also took a bad fall, landing hard on his posterior after trying to show off his skills.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • Turns out 1973 was a reminder that just when things seem to be going great, disruption comes to bite us on the posterior.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
  • If that set of bones is well controlled, the tibialis posterior can work eccentrically to smoothly lower your foot to the ground.
    — Jay Dicharry, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2019
  • And this place was crawling with worms, though not ones that would actually crawl, given that their posteriors were structured to attach to a surface.
    — ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Then the man, filled with liquid fire, started pinching the posteriors of several different young women.
    — Bruce Arians and Lars Anderson, SI.com, 7 July 2017
  • Easier to lead the league with 40 home runs than 50 if the latter involved jabbing a needle in your posterior.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 June 2021
  • The work’s title appears in big red letters at the bottom of the painting, below a close-up of a naked female posterior that’s framed by a trompe l’oeil proscenium arch.
    — Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
  • On one side of the Instagram, her posterior appears bump- and blemish-free, while the other side shows noticeable cellulite.
    — Devon Ivie, Allure, 16 Aug. 2017
  • For those not down with the current vernacular, Finebaum said the Big Ten is covering your posterior.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Bounce music -- that evocative sound that serves as background to the undulating posteriors of twerking dancers -- is on the move in New Orleans.
    — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 8 June 2017
  • While Gomez may have to painstakingly remove the splinters from his posterior, his nuanced argument of different types of speed is compelling.
    — SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Then, after posting a video of herself taking the previous picture, Spears shut down naysayers who commented on her posterior.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • With a stable big toe, your forefoot is stabilized, which creates a stable platform for your rearfoot, which means your tibialis posterior can stop trying to do the work of other muscles.
    — Jay Dicharry, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2019
  • Scorpions are armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson, or stinger, on the posterior of their tail.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
  • The lower portion of the tibia forms the roof and medial (inside) of the ankle, while the lower portion of the fibula forms the lateral (outside) and posterior (back) of the ankle.
    — Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Philip English imagines a stuffy British bureaucrat parking his posterior on that seat and arguing that humans could never have descended from apes.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The company has everything from cheaper units which just supply warm water to the posterior, to expensive units with heated seats, warm air driers, adjustable nozzles, and remote controls.
    — Brent Rose, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
  • His affinity for Princeton prompted him to have the school’s mascot, a tiger, tattooed on his posterior, a fact confirmed to reporters decades later by his wife aboard a plane taking them to China.
    — Matthew Lee, Chron, 7 Feb. 2021
  • His affinity for Princeton prompted him to have the school's mascot, a tiger, tattooed on his posterior, a fact confirmed to reporters decades later by his wife aboard a plane taking them to China.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Surprisingly, Wendy decides to stand by Karen in that moment, going so far as to tell Robyn to take her head out of Gizelle’s posterior and butt out of the conversation.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 18 July 2021
  • The galley shows a variety of wild animals (including the posterior of a mountain goat) that are presumably native to the Mount Rushmore State.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The attached marathon seasons, compressed offseasons and challenging schedules that came with that stature also included generally being relegated to the posterior of the draft.
    — Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2026

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