How to Use isometric in a Sentence

isometric

adjective

• Tyranny stands tall among the greats in the isometric CRPG tradition.
  — Chuong Nguyen and Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• Add an isometric hold at the top of the movement by holding the position for at least one second.
  — Tiffany Ayuda, SELF, 12 Aug. 2022
• The moves that have worked for me are hinges, isometric holds, single-leg workouts, and upping my leg workouts to three days a week.
  — Women's Health, 6 June 2023
• Each round consists of isometric plank holds, subtle forward and backward tilts, and twists and dips to work your obliques.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Try an isometric exercise for a change of pace in your core routine.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 28 May 2017
• This process can be thought of as an isometric embedding.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
• The wall sit basically takes the isometric portion of the squat and blows it out into its own, leg-quaking move.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 24 Aug. 2022
• Pull that same knee up, and create an isometric contraction on that side.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• The isometric contraction occurs when the force your muscles create is equal to the force of your external load.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
• Just be sure your system is up to snuff for the series' original isometric RPG goodness.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
• Brief gameplay scenes showed a squad of marines shooting at Xenomorphs from an isometric perspective.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 June 2022
• Barre classes are total body workouts made up of small, isometric movements that take their cues from ballet warm-ups.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 14 July 2018
• Diablo II is often held up as the pinnacle of the series, a standard by which all its sequels and the whole genre of isometric games are compared.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2022
• On one end of the spectrum, there’s pure force: think of isometric exercises, like a front plank or one-rep max lifts where speed is negligible, like a heavy back squat.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2021
• The isometric workouts like yoga, pilates and barre are 30 minutes.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2021
• Classes at the studio utilize the ballet barre to perform small isometric movements set to music.
  — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• Which is why the humble plank, an isometric hold, is the single most effective training exercise for it.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 16 May 2021
• The team says that isometric exercise should be used to complement other forms of movement, not replace it.
  — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• Bastion is an action role-playing game that takes place in a bizarre cartoon world with an isometric perspective.
  — Jason Schreier, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
• Tin Hearts is basically Lemmings but with tin soldiers and an isometric 3D view rather than 2D.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• This is a digital version for the Nintendo Switch, which the cute isometric action-adventure game plays great on.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2023
• This type of training is known as isometric, or static, exercise, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• Pure Barre consists of small, isometric movements that produce fast results.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2020
• You command wizards and rogues in real time from an isometric perspective.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 4 June 2018
• Continue to push upward with your legs against the resistance of the towel with maximal effort for three to four seconds (isometric phase).
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2021
• Wrapping your head around the totality of their case is an isometric mental exercise that creates a sinewy strain between faith and fact.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• This move is also an isometric core position, this time strengthening the oblique muscles.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 5 Aug. 2022
• Players saw an isometric view of the world, with 3D characters and locations placed in and operating across a 2D canvas.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• Shoveling snow involves isometric or static exertion, which means that when someone is bending over and trying to lift heavy loads of snow, that causes a big increase in their heart rate and blood pressure.
  — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
• Planks: The plank exercise is an isometric core strength exercise that involves maintaining a position similar to a push-up for the maximum possible time.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024