How to Use shoulder blade in a Sentence

shoulder blade

noun
  • Pull back on your shoulder blades and do not let your back arch or round.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Retract your shoulder blades and lift both hands off the floor.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Perform a row by first pulling your shoulder blade back and down.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2020
  • There is a large bloody hole between his shoulder blade and spine.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Squeeze your glutes and shoulder blades, lifting your legs and arms an inch off the floor.
    — Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
  • Brace your core, pull your shoulder blades down, and pull your chest toward the bar.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 15 June 2026
  • My first arrow had pierced his rib cage and then ripped through to lodge in a shoulder blade.
    — Ray Alt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Squeeze your shoulder blades to drive them back into the bench, and squeeze your abs and glutes.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The scapula is the shoulder blade, and the area around it is muscle.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • Squeeze your shoulder blades and keep that tension for the entire round.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Squeeze your shoulder blades and keep that tension for the entire round.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Still, nothing could fully ease the damned ache in my shoulder blade.
    — Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Squeeze your shoulder blades and back muscles at the top of the movement.
    — Danielle Zickl, Health, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Hold for a moment, squeezing your back and shoulder blades tight.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But every now and then, small buzzers near my shoulder blades and back will hop around against my skin.
    — Lizzie Plaugic, The Verge, 14 Apr. 2018
  • This was more of a firm, two-handed shove right between the shoulder blades.
    — Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This group of muscles shapes your back from your shoulder blades down to your lower spine.
    — Ciara Lucas, SELF, 15 Feb. 2026
  • His shoulder blades cut lines under his shirt, his face pulled taut over sharp cheekbones.
    — Maggie Slepian, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Shimmy your torso so that your left glute, left shoulder blade, and spine are all off the bench.
    — Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 27 May 2022
  • The woman was shot in her upper arm and shoulder blade, the warrant said.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The refs decided the hit was at Toews’ shoulder blade and not a head shot.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
  • The pain may travel to the back, usually the right shoulder blade.
    — Qin Rao, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Squeeze your shoulder blade at the top of the movement, then slowly lower down.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 8 May 2021
  • One was a heart with wings on her right wrist and the other was a rose with a dagger on her shoulder blade.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The man, his clothes dusty and his arms streaked with red, had a broken shoulder blade and a punctured lung.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The scan probed hitherto unseen wounds in the back, shoulder blade and rib cage.
    — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • From the nape of my neck, the prickly feeling spread to a point between my shoulder blades.
    — Mya Guarnieri, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Squeeze your shoulder blades together as your arms progress to a T-shape.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Tuck shoulder blades in and down, body vertical, knees bent if needed.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • If the child cannot cough or make noise, deliver hard back blows between the shoulder blades.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025

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