How to Use adduction in a Sentence

adduction

noun

• The key for all those moves, of course, is chest adduction.
  — Men's Health, 6 June 2022
• One of the main functions of the chest is adduction, or driving your arms to the midline of your torso to squeeze the pecs.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022
• That way, your main focus can be on the movement that will grow your chest, adduction, rather than the stress your joints face under load.
  — Men's Health, 6 June 2022
• In this case, shoulder adduction—or moving your arm inward across your body—is the main function of your pec muscles.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 27 Oct. 2022
• Glide your straight legs out in abduction and squeeze them back in adduction towards your midline.
  — Michelle Ward Trainor, PEOPLE.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Asymmetry in the bone structure also indicated that the limbs were used for adduction, the pull down motion used in the human breast stroke.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2019
• This do-it-all band acts as a hip abductor (helping with movement away from the body), assists with hip adduction (movement toward the body), and stabilizes the knee while running.
  — Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2016
• Unlike a hinge joint that moves only (for the most part) forward and backward, like the knee, the shape of the ball-and-socket joint in the hip allows for flexion, extension, internal and external rotation, abduction, and adduction.
  — SELF, 22 Feb. 2019
• The results were surprising; subjects running barefoot showed less hip adduction (inward rotation), hip internal rotation, and pelvic drop (when hips sway from side to side, dropping one side down).
  — Shelby Carpenter, Outside Online, 26 May 2015
• In one such study, conducted by researchers at the University of Salford, runners who were trained to increase their step rate by 10 percent exhibited reductions in hip adduction, lateral pelvic tilt, and pain.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2020
• The training plan involves one workout a week, typically including six exercises on Nautilus One machines: chest press, pulldown, leg press, abdominal flexion, back extension, and either hip adduction or abduction.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024