How to Use erector in a Sentence

erector

noun
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  • The erector spinae work to extend and laterally flex the spine.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But when the focus of bending is switched to the ankles, those erector muscles aren't the major support.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • The core is your midsection, with spinal erectors that hold up the spine, and abdominals and obliques that help rotate the trunk.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The entire spinal column is lined on either side with very strong erector muscles that support the core.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 2019
  • Ivanka has put down her erector sets and now has an official role in her father’s White House.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 10 May 2017
  • On Wadsworth Terrace, one building’s foundation is propped up by an erector set of stilts.
    — C.j. Hughes, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
  • IRBMs look like small space rockets, and are launched from a transporter/erector/launcher towed by a tractor trailer.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2019
  • There are rows of concrete trucks, the erector is fabricated and painted.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 July 2019
  • The mobile transporter and erector will make the missile difficult to locate.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The Green Bank Telescope, which was completed in 2000, looks like an extreme erector set with its criss-crossing bars and geometric shapes.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2019
  • For starters, this move targets many major muscles at once, including the glutes, hamstrings, quads, spinal erectors (muscles that line the spine), core, and upper back, says Borden.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 24 Jan. 2019
  • The rocket exploded without warning in a tremendous blast that destroyed the booster, its payload and the rocket's transporter erector.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2017
  • There are a couple of ways to minimize erector tube/turret sticking while zeroing.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Participants at the high school level get an erector-set style package that allows them to build a robot to their specific design.
    — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The Iskander-M is a 26-foot-long, three-foot-wide missile typically fired from a truck transporter/erector/launcher vehicle.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Bending forward is limited by the erector spinae muscles, which act like cables to support forward bends up to 20 degrees, though some dancers can achieve 30 degrees, the paper says.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2018
  • Unlike other missiles that were paraded on their transporter-erector-launcher vehicles, the KN-20 was paraded on the back of a flatbed truck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Months later, Fitzgerald is devoted to translating all of On War, with her own illustrations, for the erector-set strategist crowd.
    — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 18 July 2011
  • Deadlifts already work the posterior chain, or the muscles at the rear of the body like the hamstrings, gluteus maximus, trapezius, posterior deltoids, and erector spinae.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Larger tubes also leave more room for turret adjustments, but only if erector tubes are not also enlarged.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The first missile unknown missile system is what appears to be a long-range missile mounted on a 16x16 transporter/erector/launcher (TEL) vehicle.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Large tunnels tend to use concrete segments which lock together to form rings – these are installed by an erector arm incorporated into the TBM.
    — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Earlier this month, the company tweeted that its transporter erector launcher was en route to Kodiak.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
  • Your core also includes your diaphragm, obliques (muscles along the side of your abdomen), transverse abdominis (your deepest core muscles), erector spinae, and more.
    — Manee Magee, SELF, 7 May 2022
  • That's not wrong—but deadlift variations target your entire posterior chain, which includes your spinal erectors, low back muscles, and even your bigger back muscles like your delts and traps.
    — Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Watching the crane in action immediately transports one back to childhood days with an erector set, where hours and hours were happily spent picking up something in one place and moving it someplace else.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2021
  • Even if it wasn’t designed by Starck, though, ISS is magnificent, maybe even something of a miracle, a giant erector set assembled in orbit.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The boat pose is an isometric exercise that works your transverse abominis, rectus abdominis, hip flexors, and erector spinae, which are the stabilizing muscles in the back that run along the spine.
    — SELF, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The rocket, mounted horizontally on a transporter-erector, is then hauled a short distance to the launch mount, and powerful hydraulic pistons rotate the booster to the vertical position for launch.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Your back muscles include your traps, lats, delts, rhomboids, erector spinae, and other muscles associated with the posterior chain.
    — Tony Gentilcore, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022

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