How to Use push-up in a Sentence

push-up

noun

• Get some squats, push-ups, or sit-ups soon after the meal.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2023
• Jill Biden isn't sitting out this tap-back, push-up sprint?
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• From the looks of the brave souls returning from these unique workouts, planks and push-ups will never be the same.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
• Perform your push-up on an incline, with your hands on a bench, chair, or couch.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• Give push-ups, chest presses, pull-ups, lat pulldowns, bent-over rows, and face pulls a shot.
  — Ashley Mateo, Women's Health, 8 Apr. 2023
• The punishment for being late was stair climbs or push-ups.
  — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Start in a push-up or high plank position, with the band around the ankles, forming a straight line from shoulders to heel.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
• The heyday of the push-up bra came and went ages before Kim Kardashian launched shapewear label Skims in 2019.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2023
• The bird dog starts in the same position as a push-up, only on your knees instead of supporting your weight on the tips of your toes.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
• Tie closures and push-up bust will lift the breasts and create a secure-feeling fit for easy movement.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
• The players on defense also did five push-ups each for failing to grab a rebound.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2023
• Think sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, crunches or squats, as examples.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• This swim top has the same push-up effect and increases your bust size by two for a curvier look this pool season.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2024
• One recent day, at a base in a pine forest, new Azov recruits marched, stood at attention and dropped for push-ups.
  — Andrew E. Kramer Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• An upbeat drill sergeant in glitter nail polish, Monroy put Marie through a routine of squats, planks and push-ups.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Hanner said that push-ups are the No. 1 cause of rhabdomyolysis, followed by squats and wall squats and then bear crawls, up-downs and burpees.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• The Evelyn Bra is like a push-up bra but much more comfortable and less detectable underneath your clothes.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
• Arnold is smoking cigars between takes, and Tom is working on the next seven scenes or doing push-ups or something.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 25 May 2023
• Try lowering yourself to the bottom of the push-up and then taking three to five seconds to slowly push back up to make the move more challenging.
  — Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 13 Mar. 2024
• These circuits can include everything from push-ups, broad jumps, farmer’s carries, and dumbbell work, to squats and rows.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 11 May 2023
• On the interior is a push-up bra with light padding for ideal coverage and lift.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
• Just watching Fassbender do push-ups in his black rubber gloves wires up the atmosphere.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• The Blumarine dress, as pointed out by Page Six, was a breast-baring wedding dress that used the corset as a push-up with nothing covering the chest except mesh.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
• Sweating from push-ups, sit-ups and using a rowing machine is one thing, but a session at Hotworx is something else again.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• For each one, every player would have to do one up-down, an exercise where players drop down to a push-up position then bounce back up.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• This all-in-one product serves multiple functions and acts as a kettlebell, barbell, push-up bar, or a dumbbell.
  — Braelyn Wood, Health, 13 Apr. 2023
• Teammates at a prior firm recall breaking into push-up and burpee contests on their office floors.
  — Bre Badham, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• With the Olympics in mind, van Gorp is breaking for up to two and a half hours each day, plus gym sessions and calisthenics – body-weight strength training like push-ups and sit-ups – in pursuit of winning gold.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• Take a push-up, for example: Lowering your body down is an eccentric move, and pressing it back up is a concentric move.
  — Ashley Mateo, Health, 6 May 2024
• Generations of schoolchildren would suffer consequential trauma, but maybe learn how to do a good set of push-ups or run a mile.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024