How to Use meridian in a Sentence

meridian

noun

• Olivia Parrott has spent much of her summer in the woods, on street meridians and even on top of roofs.
  — Mark Lawton, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• Their prime meridian is still used today and is where the Meridiani Planum region of Mars gets its name.
  — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2016
• And how the ground on which Clint Eastwood and others shot was by the Mediterranean, not beneath the American blood meridian.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 23 May 2022
• The school of thought emphasizes meridians, specific lines along the body.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2018
• Those westgoers flocking into the arid lands beyond the 100th meridian would see their dreams dashed by spindly crops.
  — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
• The movements help with blood circulation and the body’s meridians — which in Chinese medicine refer to the pathways that energy, or qi, flows through.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• In addition, the scraping motion is known to stimulate meridians in the skin– similar to cupping– which allows the body to detox.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
• Another landed on the dirt meridian that divided the lanes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Shiatsu massage focuses on key points (or meridians) in the body.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
• The meridians, and the acupuncture points found along them, flow through every nerve, muscle, tendon, blood vessel and organ - connecting our head to our toes and everything in-between.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
• The international date line is on the opposite side of the planet from the Greenwich — or prime — meridian that marks zero degrees longitude.
  — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 18 July 2017
• From an Eastern perspective, acupuncture works by balancing the flow of qi (chi), also known as energy, which moves through meridians, or channels in your body.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• The meridians surface at roughly 360 places identified as acupuncture points.
  — Deborah Storey | For Al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2019
• Acupressure is derived from traditional Chinese medicine and is based on the belief that there are meridians, or energy channels, that run throughout the body.
  — Nicole Defeudis, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• These meridians are thought to correspond to specific organs and, when stimulated, can strengthen blood flow and prompt the release of certain hormones.
  — Maria Carter, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• For those seeking a more gentle water treatment, aquatic energy balancing works with the chakras and meridians to clear energy blockages while guests float in the water.
  — Anna Haines, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• The land west of the 100th meridian, Powell announced, could not support conventional agriculture.
  — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
• What’s more, that meridian trench is supposedly not the narrow one seen in the X-Wing exhaust port bombing run (despite shots showing fighters approaching the meridian).
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• The treatment plan utilizes both body and facial points, and prior to facial needling, micro-current (a therapeutic electrical stimulation) is used on the muscles and meridians of the face to both boost the Qi and drain fluids.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2019
• Radiating out from the center are twelve meridians—the first chronometers were created in order to determine these imaginary time boundaries—which continue on the wide, curved glass found on the caseback.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
• Unlike acupuncture, where the needles may be almost imperceptible, and are applied along Chinese-style meridian lines, dry needling targets knotted tissue and other pain sources head-on.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• While traditional acupuncture focuses on the meridians, other forms of the practice include trigger-point acupuncture, also known as ashi acupuncture.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2018
• In February 2010, the term autonomous sensory meridian response came to her.
  — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2019
• Acupressure is a type of massage therapy that stimulates meridians (also called energy pathways) located at certain points in the body.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 31 May 2024
• Every few kilometers along the highway, villagers in nearly 90-degree heat stand at the meridian holding cardboard collection boxes for drinking water and cash donations.
  — Ben Otto, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• The most recent multisensory development is the connection between food and autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 3 Apr. 2017
• As an internet curiosity, ASMR—autonomous sensory meridian response—has reached cult-like proportions.
  — Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 20 June 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024