How to Use lat in a Sentence

lat

noun

• Your arms should be straight and your lats pulled back.
  — Alexa Tucker, SELF, 21 Mar. 2018
• Perez, the Tigers' top prospect, has been out with a right lat strain since March.
  — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2018
• Cueto has been on the IL with a Grade 1 right lat strain since April 15.
  — Michael Wagaman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• Stick to your glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves, traps, and lats.
  — K. Aleisha Fetters, SELF, 21 July 2018
• Your shoulders should be pulled down and back, locking in the lats, at the bottom of the lift.
  — Erin Warwood, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
• One of them landed on the disabled list with a strained right lat.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
• The Tigers announced in March that Perez, 20, would miss at least three months with a right lat strain.
  — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2018
• Engaging your lats also helps to keep the weight close to the body.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• For the Angels, the strained body parts are a biceps, a groin, a lat, a hamstring and an oblique.
  — Jeff Miller, Orange County Register, 2 May 2017
• Smith had surgery Monday to repair a Grade 3 lat strain, and is out for the rest of the season.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2018
• Move your body weight on a foam roller to loosen up tightness in your quads, calves, lats, and more.
  — Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2019
• With your lats spread, try and rotate slightly to touch your left elbow to the right knee.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 25 July 2023
• Liang told the women to squeeze their lats, and follow from their back muscles, not their arms.
  — Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times, 29 July 2018
• Cueto last pitched April 14, then was sidelined by a strained right lat.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2021
• Today that means sets of pullups in a weighted vest, which will rock his lats and forearms.
  — Kristine Thomason, Men's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
• The team said deGrom had inflammation in his right lat and wouldn’t throw for the next few days.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 5 May 2021
• Add these three moves to your morning or evening routine to train and maintain your lats, abs, and glutes.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2018
• Kennedy had season-ending knee surgery, and a lat strain sidelined him for most of the 2019 season.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
• Lat Pull-Down Grab a lat pull-down bar, with your hands shoulder width apart and your palms facing away from you.
  — K. Aleisha Fetters, Outside Online, 19 June 2019
• Well, only Cole and Cortes stayed healthy, with Severino the latest to go down with a lat strain.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
• Howard, acquired from Philadelphia in 2021, had missed the first two months of the season with a lat strain.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 June 2023
• Last year, Steven Matz, another of the Mets’ young pitching prodigies, missed many weeks with a tear of his lat.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2016
• That includes your pectorals (chest), lats (the broad muscle on the sides of your mid-back), triceps, and the muscles around the shoulder blades.
  — Isadora Baum, SELF, 16 Mar. 2019
• Luis Severino has yet to throw a pitch in a game this season and is still weeks away from his return from a right lat strain.
  — Kristie Ackert, courant.com, 14 June 2019
• Keep your lats engaged and arms hanging at your sides, and ground through your right foot to maintain your balance.
  — Megan Falk, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• Asked why the reliever wasn’t being used, Nevin said Tepera had been dealing with a knot in his lat.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• While abroad, Neal said, Wallen tore his lat (the latissimus dorsi, a muscle in your back that connects to arm movements).
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Stand with your back to a machine with a pulley (like a lat pulldown or mixed cable machine).
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• As his right hand firmly clutches your right hand, his left hand runs from your tricep to your lats, searching.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
• Lawnmowers force you to pull the kettlebell from the floor and pull the weight across your body, putting the lats through a range of motion that rivals that of any gym machine.
  — Men's Health, 23 June 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024