How to Use quadriceps in a Sentence

quadriceps

noun
  • He felt a pain in his right quadriceps.
  • At the end of a long day, your right quadriceps are likely to be sore.
    — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 1 July 2020
  • Ford has said his pain was near the top of his knee and lower part of his quadriceps.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2020
  • Cain had been sidelined by a strained right quadriceps, and Bradley was out with a sore right wrist.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Press the feet into the ground as wide as the hips, and keep the legs straight by engaging your quadriceps.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Sit and enjoy them a minute before putting your quadriceps to the test on the return descent.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • Leonard is out again, this time with a quadriceps tendinopathy that has sidelined him for all but nine games this season.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Franklin has been out since early May with a lingering quadriceps strain.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2018
  • Polo could miss the remainder of the season with damage to his right knee and quadriceps.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • Polo sustained a ruptured right quadriceps and a torn meniscus on the play and will be out the rest of the season.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
  • New York was without Julius Randle (right quadriceps) for a fourth straight game.
    — Noah Trister, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Historically, the go-to line of attack has been to strengthen the quadriceps, on the front of the thigh.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Cain did some vigorous on-field running prior to Sunday's game to test his left quadriceps.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Adames’ quadriceps had been bugging him for a few weeks, prompting Counsell to give him time off recently.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The wall sit exercise is a lower-body move that works your quadriceps, or the muscles in the front of your upper thighs, Williams says.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Vela, who missed most of last season with a knee injury, injured his right quadriceps in the first game this season and has been troubled by it all season.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • An athlete that sustains a knee or kick to the front of the thigh usually has an injury known as a quadriceps muscle contusion.
    — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The Rockets were without a key piece of that deal as Victor Oladipo rested a sore right quadriceps.
    — Schuyler Dixon, Chron, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Poe, who signed as a free agent, had surgery for a torn quadriceps muscle in November while with Carolina.
    — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Coach Scott Brooks said Westbrook originally hurt the quadriceps more than a month ago.
    — Rich Dubroff, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Last season, Cespedes missed a few days to rest a right quadriceps muscle and returned briefly — only to end up on the disabled list.
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Hernandez strained his right quadriceps while running the bases in the sixth inning when the Marlins scored twice to take a 3-1 lead.
    — John Perrotto, sun-sentinel.com, 3 June 2021
  • Standing with your feet as wide as your hips, press down evenly through all 10 toes and squeeze your quadriceps (the large muscle at the front of each thigh) to engage your legs.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Elijah Campbell began practicing with the team last week after a quadriceps injury sidelined him for two weeks.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
  • He was activated after missing 66 of the first 70 games because of a strained right quadriceps.
    — Steven Wine, sun-sentinel.com, 22 June 2021
  • After injuries to his Achilles tendon, quadriceps and ACL, his last three years have been hardly a joke.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This exercise strengthens the quadriceps, the large muscle at the front of the thigh, and stabilizes the knee joint by keeping the patella, or kneecap, in place through the movement.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
  • For the second straight game, the Nuggets endured without veteran Paul Millsap, who sat out with a right quadriceps strain.
    — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Tabbed a Colts starter as a rookie, hamstring and quadriceps ailments shut him down halfway through that initial professional campaign.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2026

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