How to Use hinge in a Sentence

hinge

1 of 2 noun

• Yeah, what’s your, your hinge point?
  — NBC news, 17 May 2026
• This is the hinge on which the next five years turn.
  — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 16 June 2026
• Some of this hinges on what hasn’t been said, too.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
• Bend your right knee, hinge at your hips, and push your butt back.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
• Clean the hinges then give them a closer look.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
• Don’t overlook the door hinges.
  — Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
• Pizzelle makers have two sides, joined by a hinge at the back.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
• Over the course of a lifetime, there are a lot of such hinge points.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 May 2026
• Marek says many birds have a kind of hinge between their face and skull.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Take big, wide steps so that the lunge hinges at the hip joint rather than the knee joint.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 18 Aug. 2025
• Keeping your chest up and back flat, hinge at your hips and push your butt back.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 Apr. 2026
• Over time, a toilet is likely to loosen from its hinges.
  — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 25 May 2026
• Are the clasps and hinges sturdy, not flimsy?
  — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 10 Jan. 2026
• The creak of a hinge, the thrum of water running through the pipes.
  — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
• Their spending hinges, in part, on a healthy stock market.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
• His speechwriters grabbed the metaphor by the hinges.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• The year 2008 was a hinge in Davis’s life.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• Knobs, hinges, and small fixtures collect grease and grime over time.
  — Katie Cloyd, Martha Stewart, 25 Feb. 2026
• Politics blow it off the hinge.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Now without any effort on her part, the door had come loose on its hinges.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The hinge is reinforced by steel.
  — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 17 Mar. 2026
• Insert your thumb under the shell by the apron hinge and pry off the top shell.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
• The wood doors with rustic hinges and handles matched the stone base to a tee.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
• To combat this, check for flimsy frames, loose hinges, or weak nose pads.
  — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 26 Mar. 2026
• The street-facing wall sagged, and the front door, ripped from its hinges, lay on the ground.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
• Be sure to use your hip hinge to power the weight; this isn't a muscle-up.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 11 Nov. 2022
• Be mindful not to take all your hinge pins out at the same time, or the door will fall out of place.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
• That could be a problem for a device with a movable hinge.
  — ArsTechnica, 14 May 2026
• The storage is hidden under the lid, which opens up on a hinge.
  — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2026
• The doors snap securely shut with a clasp and open smoothly on a hinge.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023

hinge

2 of 2 verb

• Keep spine straight and hinge forward to feel a stretch in glute and hip.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• Stand with feet hip-width apart and hinge hips back with bent knees and a straight back.
  — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
• That hinges on getting a win against Bosnia next week.
  — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• Bend at the knees and hinge at the hips and grab the weight an overhand grip.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
• In fact, their appeal and value is hinged to it.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
• Push your butt back and hinge at the hips, lowering the weight down.
  — Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
• But again—don’t build a trip that hinges entirely on a light show.
  — Marc Telio, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2025
• Push your butt back and hinge at the hips to grasp the bar in both hands in an overhand grip.
  — Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2023
• Thanks to hinged branches and pre-strung lights, setup takes less than one hour.
  — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
• Push your butt back and hinge at the waist to bend down to grab the bar on either side of your legs.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• The lid hinges back a little more than 90º and, when closed, has a tight seal to it.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 July 2023
• Kennedy’s case hinged, in part, on whether his players might have felt coerced to join him in prayer.
  — Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• Keeping your chest up, hinge forward at your hips as if sitting back in a chair.
  — Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 19 Aug. 2025
• Push your hip slightly back and hinge forward on the lunging leg to load your glutes.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
• With a slight bend in your knees and a flat back, hinge at hips and swing the kettlebell back through legs.
  — Jordan Galloway, Women's Health, 25 July 2023
• With your core engaged and a flat back, hinge forward at the hips, pushing your glutes back.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
• Twilio’s turnaround didn’t hinge on a single quarter.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 June 2026
• But Gakpo’s final chance — by far the biggest — is the one on which the game hinged.
  — Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
• Lasting change hinges less on what any coach does or says — publicly or privately.
  — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 28 June 2026
• That sunnier forecast has hinged, in part, on trends in the labor market.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• But the other race, on which control of the Senate may hinge, is very close.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• Success hinges on a tight feedback loop between finance and sales.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• All that hinges, though, on the flow of oil returning toward normal.
  — Matt Ott, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
• With your core engaged, hinge forward slightly, keeping a slight bend in your knees.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 25 Aug. 2025
• The amount of time the crew spend aboard the Okeanos hinges entirely on each person’s role.
  — Andy Lusk, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Maintaining a soft bend in your knees, engage your glutes and hamstrings, and hinge at your hips.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• Stand with your feet just wider than shoulder-width apart, hinge at the hips, bend at the knees, holding the handle.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 26 Oct. 2022
• The future course of prices hinges on what happens to the Strait of Hormuz.
  — Daniel Yergin, Time, 20 June 2026
• Its six hinging props are spaced on two extensions to the front, two on the wingtips, and two attached to the tail.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• But a condition of the real estate deal hinged on the city’s approval of the golf course.
  — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 23 June 2026