How to Use hip bone in a Sentence

hip bone

noun
  • Generally, the stick should reach from the ground up to around the hip bone.
    Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Your sweaters and cardigans should hit right at the top of your hip bone for the sake of clean lines in the outfit.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 7 Nov. 2023
  • To find your best fit, measure your torso from the top of your hip bone to the base of your neck.
    Elaine Murphy, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Use your hip bone as a guide for adjusting the seat height.
    Haley Shapley, SELF, 13 Oct. 2018
  • Tiny gold charms dangling from Paris Hilton’s hip bone.
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Harper's Magazine, 21 May 2023
  • The straps are meant to be worn hiked up around the hip bones, just as the smoky-eyed male and female models wore them on the Spring 1997 runway.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The last bones to go, the ilium and sacrum (the big hip bones atop the skeleton) are the heaviest bone structure.
    Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Side Stretch Targets a lower back muscle that runs from the top of your hip bone to the bottom rib.
    Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 2 July 2011
  • The pubic bone and hip bones should be heavily pressed into the mat.
    Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
  • A few days later, on January 18, a person walking on the same area of the beach found a piece of a hip bone.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Its ribs are showing through its skin, hip bones jutting out atop spindly legs.
    Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
  • Bend right elbow and row dumbbell up and back until wrist is near hip bone.
    Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • That point is generally about halfway between the lowest rib and the tip of the hip bone.
    Michelle Pugle, Health, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Okeke missed all of training camp with a hip bone bruise and Moore recently sprained an ankle.
    Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The Hips Yep, even the hips can be super sensitive on men — so give him the best tease ever by kissing his hip bones.
    Redbook, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Stand up straight, exhale (no sucking in that gut!) and with a soft tape measure record your girth an inch or two above your hip bones.
    New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • Skin farther up the neck to remove the neck meat, if desired. Find the floating rib, between the back of the chest cavity and forward of the hip bone.
    Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Five-point harnesses and booster seats position a lap belt over the top of the hip bones, low and flat against the thighs, so the child’s bones absorb the impact.
    Lauren Gravitz, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • Clearly, the Kryptonian’s knee bone is connected to the hip bone, and that’s key.
    Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2018
  • If a certain style comes in multiple sizes, measure your torso length from the very top of the hip bone to the C7 vertebrae at the bases of your neck.
    Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2022
  • To test the curing process, the caladores puncture, in rapid succession, four specific spots—the hock, next to the hip bone and twice around a joint of the hip and femur.
    Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Gerber has a number of tattoos, including some barbed wire art on his hand and a gun on his hip bone.
    Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Just as the leg bone is connected to the hip bone, product makers want to be connected to Skelly.
    Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Ogunbowale has not played since Aug. 6 due to an oblique injury where the abdominal muscle meets the hip bone.
    Peter Warren, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • When loaded and properly adjusted, the pack should lie flat against your back with the hip belt wrapping around your hip bones.
    Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Resting her left arm against her hip bone helps keep it more stable, she's discovered.
    Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The sacrum consists of two vertebrae that form a large triangular bone at the bottom of the spine, acting as a wedge between the hip bones.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The whale is modeled from a partial skeleton, which includes 13 vertebrae, four ribs and one hip bone.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The dress was undeniably bold thanks to an asymmetrical design and a slit that began at the hip bone.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 31 July 2020
  • Several, including some vertebrae, a hip bone and the leg bones were stained green.
    New York Times, 18 May 2018

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