How to Use gluteus in a Sentence

gluteus

noun
  • The gluteus medius is a muscle on the lateral side of your glute near your hip.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Namely, your gluteus minimus and medius, the two muscles that make up your side-butt.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
  • This will add resistance and make your gluteus medius work a little harder.
    — Sarah Klein, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • At your hips, the IT band connects to the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In a squat’s concentric phase, as the legs extend to stand, the gluteus contracts to pull the hips forward.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2017
  • The gluteus minimus sits beneath the medius and attaches deeper into the side of your pelvis.
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
  • Weakness in the gluteus medius muscle can also contribute to lower back and knee pain.
    — Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 30 July 2025
  • Clam shells target your gluteus medius and minimus for improved knee stability.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Clam shells target your gluteus medius and minimus for improved knee stability.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 18 June 2026
  • And finally, missing all but nine games last season with the Wizards with a gluteus injury.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The gluteus medius is the middle of the three glute muscles, nestled between the gluteus minimus and the gluteus maximus.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 May 2023
  • The clamshell is a simple exercise, but the movement is an effective way to hit the often underworked gluteus medius.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This move activates the gluteus medius, maximus, and minimus while improving balance.
    — Sara Angle, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
  • This move really works your abs and gluteus medius, the small muscle on the outer side of your butt that supports the hip and rotational movement of the thigh.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Leg squat and hold Jockeys need super strong quadriceps and gluteus muscles, so this portion of the assessment targets both.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This is a crucial muscle for runners to strengthen, but the other muscles in your butt, the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius, are important too.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 2 Apr. 2019
  • The gluteus muscles work with forceful extension of the hip, such as stair or hill climbing; or powerful cycling, such as sprinting or hill climbing.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 May 2022
  • By the time it was diagnosed, Jackson’s cancer was in his hip bone, femur, the capsule around his hip joint and in his gluteus and quadricep muscles.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • There are three major muscles in your glutes — the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus — that work together to rotate, abduct and extend the hip.
    — Stephanie Mansour, NBC News, 1 July 2019
  • Bridges Bridges are a type of floor exercise that can strengthen your gluteus (buttock) muscles in addition to your pelvic floor muscles and lower back.
    — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
  • Other small muscles help complete the move, including your pelvic floor muscles, which help stabilize you, and your gluteus minimus and medius, which help keep your pelvis level.
    — Christa Sgobba, Health, 16 June 2026
  • But, during the part where the fat gets transferred to the buttocks, the complaint says Torres injected the fat into the gluteus muscles of the buttocks.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
  • This exercise challenges a variety of hip muscles, including the gluteus medius and minimus, both of which assist with hip joint rotation.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 23 Apr. 2026
  • There’s also the gluteus minimus, which primarily acts as a hip stabilizer and abductor.
    — Megan Falk, Women's Health, 28 June 2023
  • Balenciaga’s glittering gluteus visual harkened back to when denim was king in the early and mid-’00s.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
  • He had been called up for our Europa League match against Lokomotiv Moscow, but was dropped last minute due to some discomfort in his gluteus.
    — SI.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • To develop strength and stability in the frontal plane, target the hip abductors, particularly your gluteus medius.
    — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The gluteus and hamstrings overlapped beneath the pelvis in an unloaded condition, enveloping the ischial tuberosity.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2016
  • Squeeze the gluteus to create pelvic stability while keeping a neutral lower spine (staying within the natural curvature).
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • But one volunteer twerker apparently went rogue, jealously pushing other pulsing gluteus maximi out of the way.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2017

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