How to Use quadriceps in a Sentence

quadriceps

noun
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  • 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
  • Moreland is on the 10-day IL with a right quadriceps strain . .
    — Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cain had been sidelined by a strained right quadriceps, and Bradley was out with a sore right wrist.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Wizards: G Ish Smith was out with a strained right quadriceps.
    — Rich Dubroff, Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Moreland, 33, was placed on the injured list June 8 with a right quadriceps strain.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • McGlinchey tore his quadriceps during a loss to the Cardinals on Nov. 7.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Stanton hadn’t played since May 13 because of a strained left quadriceps.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2021
  • New York was without Julius Randle (right quadriceps) for a fourth straight game.
    — Noah Trister, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Polo could miss the remainder of the season with damage to his right knee and quadriceps.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • 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
  • The Rockets were without a key piece of that deal as Victor Oladipo rested a sore right quadriceps.
    — Schuyler Dixon, Chron, 23 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Which comes first, the emergence of a reliable fourth reserve from the team’s youth, or the return of Victor Oladipo from his May quadriceps surgery?
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Franklin has been out since early May with a lingering quadriceps strain.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2018
  • 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
  • The main drivers of a sumo squat are your quadriceps (the muscles on the front of your thigh) and your glutes (butt muscles), while your hamstrings (the muscles on the back of your thigh) get some work in, too.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The lower-body movement in the rowing stroke helps strengthen the quadriceps and hamstrings, key muscles that protect the knee joint, Mr. Nunn says.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 31 July 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
  • Coach Scott Brooks said Westbrook originally hurt the quadriceps more than a month ago.
    — Rich Dubroff, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Making matters worse, Cristhian Paredes went down in the 76th minute Wednesday clutching his left quadriceps and had to be stretchered off the field.
    — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
  • INF Eduardo Escobar has a strain in his right quadriceps and didn't start.
    — David Brandt, ajc, 22 June 2021
  • Taylor Bertolet will be called up from the practice squad, but had three field goals in the Oct. 9 win at Cleveland after Hopkins was inactive with a strained quadriceps.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 23 Oct. 2022

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