How to Use hamstring in a Sentence

hamstring

1 of 2 noun

• So make that five hamstring strains in less than a year.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• Roll it up and down your hamstrings for relief.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025
• The injury is to his left hamstring.
  — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
• Jones had left the game with hamstring tightness.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2026
• Williamson is no stranger to hamstring injuries.
  — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
• Hays had been out since April 7 with a right hamstring strain.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
• Moore did not work out at the combine due to a hamstring injury.
  — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• Luka Dončić knew his hamstring was hurt.
  — Dan Woike, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• Samuel missed four games last year with a hamstring and ankle injury.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
• The first baseman is working his way back from a strained right hamstring.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• And what about those un-Barbie-like gluteals and hamstrings?
  — Stephanie Mansfield, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2025
• Cold stretching can lead to injuries such as pulling a hamstring.
  — Katherine Kallergis, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• My hamstrings, lower back and legs often take the brunt of it.
  — Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2026
• Sproat left with a right hamstring cramp later in the fourth inning.
  — ABC News, 17 June 2026
• Wharton missed the past three games with a hamstring injury.
  — Charlotte Observer, 30 Dec. 2025
• Your hamstrings are a group of three muscles at the back of your thigh that flex your knee (bend it).
  — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 8 June 2026
• This woman is 44-years-old and has hamstrings that just refuse to snap.
  — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
• The Nuggets’ jack-in-the-box lost his spring because of his hamstring.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
• Williams missed four games last year from a hamstring strain that pestered him throughout the season.
  — Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
• Focus on the glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, and core.
  — Danielle Zickl, Health, 10 Mar. 2026
• Not bad for someone who missed more than half of last season after hamstring surgery.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
• Mayra Ramirez has not played since a hamstring injury in pre-season.
  — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• Place the ball behind your right knee, and flex your foot to engage the hamstring and keep the ball in place.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
• Tonges stepped up when Kittle went out with a hamstring injury.
  — Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
• Carpenter again tweaked the hamstring while chasing a ball in the field.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• In that game, Gabriel was sidelined with a hamstring injury and did not play.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Jankowski missed three weeks with a hamstring strain earlier in the year.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• Turns out, that is not just because the initial hamstring pull lingered.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• The star tight end was ruled out for the game late in the second quarter with a hamstring injury.
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
• Davis missed six games with rib and hamstring injuries in 2025.
  — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2026

hamstring

2 of 2 verb

• The mayor tried to hamstring our efforts by cutting the budget.
• The company claims it is being hamstrung by government regulations.
• The hamstring muscles stretch from the pelvis to the shin bone, down the back side of the thigh.
  — Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2022
• Knox will miss his first game this season due to foot and hamstring injuries.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• We should not be hamstrung by the costs of gas, groceries and our utilities.
  — Michael Carbonara, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
• Even those items that can be produced will be hamstrung by constraints to global trade.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 June 2026
• Morgan has been declared out for the second straight week (hamstring).
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• That may signal the industry will be hamstrung by low prices in the future.
  — Cameron Baker, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• Vollmer pulled it together, babied the gimpy hamstring down the runway and over the bar.
  — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 14 May 2022
• Since last week, markets have been hamstrung by the fear that inflation is going to hang around.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Instead, focus on making your glutes and hamstrings the prime movers throughout each rep.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 15 June 2023
• In fact, the Chargers’ offense was hamstrung from almost the start.
  — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
• Last season, he was sidelined by hamstring, calf and Achilles injuries.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2022
• At times, though, the musical is hamstrung by its singing-textbook demands.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• But future work may be hamstrung by federal funding cuts.
  — Joanna Thompson, Space.com, 12 May 2026
• Assayas is a great filmmaker, but seems hamstrung by this being a film, not a series.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
• The site’s terms of service, however, list some rules that would hamstring Trump himself.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
• But further research on the long-term effects of space on humans is hamstrung by the small available sample size.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 21 Jan. 2026
• The roster is filled with high-upside youth and veterans who won’t hamstring our payroll in the future.
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
• But his reluctance to change his first-choice midfield three or rotate the wingers has hamstrung his side recently.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2026
• After last year, this clearly talented team can only go up as long as they're not hamstrung by injuries (again).
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
• The sale of the TV rights is a gamble that could hamstring Barcelona going forward.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
• There is Henrik, picking at a meal in the hospital after hamstring surgery.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• Injuries, however, have hamstrung both teams.
  — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
• For years, Apple has hamstrung what browser makers can do, but the Arc team seems to sense that things are about to change.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2023
• So many relationships get hamstrung by one or both partners expecting the other to read their minds.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
• But Flacco was hamstrung by receivers who can't catch and an offensive line that rarely afforded him time.
  — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• But Muni is also hamstrung by traffic congestion and time spent dwelling at bus stops that are spaced just a couple of blocks apart.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2026
• Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• Star shooting guard tweaked his left hamstring with less than 5 minutes to play in Monday’s blowout loss in Dallas.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022