How to Use transverse in a Sentence

transverse

1 of 2 adjective
  • The surgeon made a transverse incision across her abdomen.
  • Beau’s lines are transverse grooves in the nail, says Azzawi.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The frontal plane is your side-to-side movements, and the transverse plane is twisting movements.
    — Sarah Klein, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The transverse effect of that is the seller receiving the money.
    — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Brace through the core (engaging your transverse abdominals and obliques by pulling air in toward the trunk).
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • Detours would require trucks to travel 30 miles out of the way or transverse congested city streets.
    — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 13 June 2017
  • And then a lot of work on the transverse abdominis, a lot of exercises that will engage that, like bird dogs.
    — Tim Ferriss, Outside Online, 25 June 2019
  • Low transverse incisions are now standard in the United States.
    — Anna Nowogrodzki, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The transverse stripes on her horn, along with teeth, skull, and height, confirm her age at death was approximately 20 years.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Instead, those deep breaths cause the woman's transverse abdominals to curl around the baby, lift the pelvic floor, and raise the baby into the rib cage.
    — Redbook, 19 May 2017
  • In addition to sculpting your butt, this move challenges your obliques and transverse abdominis, aka your waist-cinching muscles.
    — NBC News, 2 May 2018
  • But those two types of waves, longitudinal and transverse, aren’t exhaustive; there are other types of waves that can, and indeed do, exist.
    — Big Think, 7 May 2026
  • The woman in this case had a horizontal wall, known as a transverse vaginal septum (TVS).
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 15 July 2019
  • As per Zhao, one notable finding was that the pion’s transverse size decreases as its momentum increases.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • Women with diastasis recti can be taught how to engage their transverse abdominals and pelvic floor, which is crucial to recovery.
    — Angela Garbes, The Cut, 15 May 2018
  • Worse, as in this child’s highly unusual case, such blockage can cause transverse myelitis — inflammation of the spinal cord — leading to paralysis.
    — Mark E. Bruley, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • As Mansour mentioned, the exercise targets the deepest core muscle that wraps around your sides and spine, the transverse abdominis.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Nov. 2018
  • Schechter was diagnosed with idiopathic transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spine.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Her work typically begins with a microscopic slide of a transverse section of plant tissue that has been decolorized and stained with natural dyes.
    — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Sanford arrived here in 1970 following his hunch that the transverse geography of the Sta.
    — Amber Turpin, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • View Photos But there was, Kim believed, a gap in the market for a mid-engined sports coupe, built around a transverse powertrain from a modern front-drive sedan.
    — Ray Hutton, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The compact, eight-valve transverse architecture shortens the wheelbase, which eases the seat height, quickens the steering and instills a decent sense of flat-foot comfort in riders.
    — Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2019
  • In 2014, both Romo and Cam Newton returned from a transverse fracture to play after missing one game.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Oct. 2017
  • In front, the design philosophy is similar, with unequal-length control arms and a transverse plastic leaf spring mounted to another large cast-aluminum subframe.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Analysis of the remains from Las Llamas shows that both children and llamas were killed with consistent, efficient, transverse cuts across the sternum.
    — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2018
  • After a visit to the emergency room, doctors diagnosed Liz with transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord, which left her paralyzed from the waist down.
    — Sheeka Sanahori, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2017
  • That led to a wide range of approaches, with some teams going transverse with their motor/gearbox layout while others went longitudinal; likewise, some teams used two or three gears, while others used just one.
    — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2018
  • For four years, her doctor prescribed the 61-year-old a wide range of opioids for her transverse myelitis, a debilitating disease that caused pain, muscle weakness and paralysis.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Thompson said that the safety mechanism is similar to the tang safety of a shotgun and includes a mechanical block actuated by a transverse cam mounted on the side of the assembly.
    — Outdoor Life, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Experts also agree that no more than two prior low transverse cesarean incisions are best when trying for a VBAC to avoid risk of uterine rupture.
    — Mariko Zapf, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2017

transverse

2 of 2 noun
  • To work the transverse plane, start with your arms straight out in front of you.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Sagittal, frontal, and even a little bit of transverse—this workout has it all.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Could a transverse-engine crossover live up to the Range Rover name?
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 10 June 2022
  • Only the longish front overhang hints at the transverse-engine, front-drive setup.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 24 Sep. 2020
  • More lockable storage is hiding in a transverse tunnel behind the cab.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Setting it up, however, required a bit of stamina and the help of a taller friend to drape the fabric over the transverse pole.
    — Stephanie Krikorian, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Over time, transverse plane moves build a tougher, more resilient core that is able to withstand shocks and absorb impact from all directions.
    — Men's Health, 7 July 2023
  • The transverse bed measures 54 x 79 in (136 x 200 cm).
    — C.c. Weiss may 05, New Atlas, 5 May 2026
  • This was evident in the transverse banding, or strips of cloud cover, that was radiating away from the storm on its northwest side.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Crunches will also help engage your transverse abdominis, which are your inner-most core muscles.
    — Amy Eisinger, M.a., SELF, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Before canals carved up South Dade, sawgrass marshes that made up transverse glades allowed freshwater to flow in sheets east.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The next year, he was diagnosed with acute transverse myelitis, a spinal cord disorder that led to temporary paralysis.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The camper was based on the full-size Transit van, then in its fourth generation, and included a transverse rear kitchen equipped with a spirit stove.
    — New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In rare instances, vaccines have triggered cases of transverse myelitis; although it can also be caused by viral infections.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 9 Sep. 2020
  • This move works both the internal and external obliques as well as the transverse and rectus abdominis, says Mansour.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Your core also includes your deep stabilizing muscles called the transverse abdominis, your hips, lower back, and pelvic floor.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The transverse rear bed layout offers some advantages over the longitudinal folding bench/bed far more common in midsize van campers.
    — New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Another feature that creates the yachting effect is the transverse marina.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of installing the usual front dinette, Eiffeland moves the unit to the center of the van, splitting the bed and kitchen areas with a two-seat transverse dinette set.
    — New Atlas, 25 Jan. 2026
  • There may not be a cut in the film, but except for a couple of lengthy tracking shots (the transverse of no-man’s land comes close to a fun-house ride) the camera does not call attention to itself.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Its fully independent suspension used Dubonnet-type trailing arms, coil springs, and hydraulic dampers in front and swing axles with transverse leaf springs in back.
    — Gary Witzenburg, Car and Driver, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The movement also strengthens the transverse abdominis − a deep muscle that stabilizes the core − and a group of muscles that runs along the spine known as the erector spinae.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The surgeon inspects the tunnel and then uses a blade attached to the camera to cut the transverse carpal ligament — the roof of the tunnel — to relieve nerve compression.
    — Kristin Karim, M.d., Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • That includes the transverse abdominis, one of the deepest abdominal muscles, which wraps around the lower torso like a girdle.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 16 May 2021
  • This exercise works the transverse abdominis, the deepest ab muscle that helps support the low back, and also works with multifidus muscles, the ones that run along the spine.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Along with your rectus abdominis, the hollow hold hits your transverse abdominis (your deepest core muscles), plus your lower back, and a little bit of your obliques.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This five-minute Pilates routine works the deepest abdominal muscles, the transverse abdominis, which help support the low back and core.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Researchers initially told subjects in the study the case involved a neurological disorder known as transverse myelitis.
    — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • There's nothing particularly interesting about the control-arm front and beam-axle rear suspension other than the transverse leaf spring that suspends the front.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 22 May 2022
  • News quickly came to light that the illness might be transverse myelitis, though, which was first reported from an anonymous source of The New York Times.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2020

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