How to Use sagittal in a Sentence

sagittal

adjective
  • To work the sagittal plane, drive your hips forward and bring your hands overhead.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Distance running mostly takes place in what’s called the sagittal plane.
    — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Most of us spend a lot of time in the sagittal plane both in everyday life and also in our workouts.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Movements like walking and front raises occur in the sagittal plane.
    — David Otey, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • Moving forward and backward is moving in the sagittal plane of motion.
    — Sarah Klein, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Many of us tend to work primarily in the sagittal plane, which involves frontward and backward movements.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Like the lateral sling stretch, this is a solid warmup movement because most strength movements occur in the sagittal plane.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Lots of us tend to live in the sagittal plane of motion, which involves forward and backward movement, or the flexing or extending of joints, like in a squat.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Lots of folks have weak hip abductors since so much of our day-to-day motions—both in life and at the gym—occur in the sagittal plane of motion, says Williams.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 July 2023
  • This can done by adding in a curtsy lunge—an advanced variation of reverse lunge that requires you to cross your leg across your body's midline, breaking that sagittal plane.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 9 May 2022
  • Paul Davis' daughter was born with sagittal craniosynostosis.
    — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Then, in the riskiest part of the process, surgeons separated the sagittal sinus, an area beneath the brain that allows blood to drain outward from the center of the head.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 13 June 2017
  • Gluteus maximus exercises, on the other hand, work primarily in the sagittal plane of movement.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 12 Sep. 2020
  • That’s especially important, since most of us spend a lot of time in the sagittal plane, which includes forward and backward motions, like walking, running, and biking.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Tim Anderson underwent successful surgery this morning in Chicago to repair a sagittal band tear on the middle finger of his left hand.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • However, males don't develop their characteristic large size, silver backs, and large head bumps (called sagittal crests) until age 12 or later.
    — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • Hinge joints operate in one plane of motion—the sagittal plane—allowing back-and-forth movement like flexion (curling a dumbbell) and extension (like straightening your leg out in front of you while seated).
    — Elizabeth Millard, Cpt, SELF, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Now that Anderson is ramping back up from surgery to repair a sagittal band tear in his left middle finger and possibly returning next week, the question of whether to keep Andrus at short looms large down the stretch.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Their biggest injury of note, All-Star Tim Anderson had successful surgery on his middle finger recently to repair a sagittal band tear in his left hand.
    — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The paper reports that damage to a particular white matter pathway in the brain, the right sagittal stratum, is associated with difficulty in perceiving a sarcastic tone of voice.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2015
  • He was born with single suture sagittal craniosynostosis — a condition in which skull bones fuse too early in infancy, potentially causing problems with brain growth — and had six major surgeries by age 10.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Tim Anderson is healthy again After surgery in early August to repair a sagittal band tear on the middle finger of his left hand, Anderson was slated to return for the final weeks of the season.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Lateral Lunge 3 sets of 6 to 8 reps per side play iconThe triangle icon that indicates to play Break out of the sagittal plane (front-to-back movement) with this side-to-side lunge, which puts you in the frontal plane.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Adult male Steller sea lions also don’t have a visible sagittal crest (the bump on the top of their heads) that is observed in adult male California sea lions, according to the Marine Mammal Center.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Because of its distinct sagittal crest, which served as an anchor for strong cheek muscles, the researchers reasoned the skull belonged to a Paranthropus, similar to Orpheus and Eurydice discovered nearly 25 years earlier.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020

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