How to Use extensor in a Sentence

extensor

noun

• Knee extensors straighten your knee joint, supporting your body weight with each step.
  — Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 5 June 2025
• Doing split squats or lunges increases your hip and knee extensor muscle strength.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 15 May 2026
• Thus, the clinical name for this injury is extensor tendonitis.
  — Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 12 Oct. 2021
• Seabold left Friday’s game in the top of the third inning with what the team termed right forearm extensor tightness.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
• The extensor tendon is cut at the lateral epicondyle to release it.
  — Oluseun Olufade, Verywell Health, 1 May 2024
• Doing lunges increases your hip and knee extensor muscle strength.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 9 July 2026
• The gluteus maximus, the largest of the three, serves as the main extensor and lateral rotator of the hip joint.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 22 July 2024
• Key evidence lay in the knee extensor muscles, which seemed to have the leverage required to straighten the knee.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2023
• My extensor carpi ulnaris tendons—the ones that run from underneath the pinky down the back of the forearm—were inflamed.
  — Time, 6 Jan. 2023
• The hip extensors include the gluteus maximus and hamstrings.
  — Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 5 June 2025
• Extension of the wrist, meanwhile, hits up the extensor carpi radialis.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 30 July 2022
• Seabold left injured as well, just after the Gallo fly, with right forearm extensor tightness.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
• These same volunteers’ wrist extensor muscles, which had not been exercised in their right wrists, were atrophied on the left.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• Hernández had surgery to repair a torn muscle and torn extensor tendon in his left elbow during the offseason.
  — CBS News, 26 May 2026
• Wrist Extensor The wrist extensor stretch increases range of motion in your wrist.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 17 Apr. 2026
• The wrist is also bent, causing structures like the wrist and finger extensor and flexor tendons to have to work harder under excess strain.
  — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2021
• Generally, pain on the top of the foot is an inflammation of the tendons that straighten the toes, which run along the top of the foot and are called extensor tendons.
  — Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 12 Oct. 2021
• There are 20 muscles in the forearm, so trying to pinpoint each flexor and extensor in our program isn’t very efficient.
  — David Otey, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
• Sometimes, a neighboring tendon (the extensor hallucis longus) is used to strengthen the repair.
  — Verywell Health, 22 Feb. 2023
• The Angels announced that tightness was in Shoemaker’s extensor muscle, which is on top of the forearm.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 14 June 2017
• In between each descending set of curls, Teo drops to a kneeling position for an active rest period in the form of wrist extensor stretches.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 3 Nov. 2022
• The problem is, this creates tightness in your extensor muscles (think triceps, quads, and back extensors), which can impact your form and increase your risk of injury.
  — Pam Moore, SELF, 25 Aug. 2021
• My left index finger would scoop a small chunk of Tiger Balm and slowly spread it over my right arm extensor muscle down to my wrist and then to my palm and finger tips, all five of them.
  — Longreads, 4 Mar. 2020
• The straight leg raise test can reveal disruption of the extensor mechanism, which includes the quadriceps tendon, patella, and patellar tendon.
  — Jonathan Cluett, Md, Verywell Health, 9 Nov. 2023
• This classical Pilates exercise targets your lower back muscles and extensors, which help with lifting objects.
  — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
• The strength of our knee extensors also contributes to the stability of the joint, which is vital for plyometric training and lateral agility.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• His left wrist issues began in May 2023 when the extensor carpi ulnaris tendon, or ECU, would pop out of its sheath.
  — Tim Reynolds, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025
• One's lower back muscles are comprised of extensor muscles, flexor muscles and oblique muscles, and include the muscle mass known as the erector spinae − the muscle group that helps hold up one's spine and glute muscles.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
• Lats Some people consider the deadlift a secondary back exercise because of its major recruitment of the spinal extensors and the latissimus dorsi.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• Coulombe missed nearly a month in May with a left forearm extensor strain, then a separate IL stint in September with left shoulder fatigue.
  — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026