How to Use hip in a Sentence

hip

1 of 3 noun

• Her spine and hips and neck crushed.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Be sure to keep your hips still.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
• Keep your hips stacked over your knees.
  — Riya Davda, Outside, 5 Oct. 2025
• Your feet should be hip-width apart.
  — Margaret Cirino, NPR, 21 June 2026
• Step close, feet about hip-width apart.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
• Press back up and drive your hips back.
  — Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2026
• Pants and skirts were slung low on the hips.
  — Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Burns was struck in the neck, arm, and hip.
  — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 10 June 2026
• Push through your heels and lift your hips up.
  — Jim Diehl Cscs, Outside, 29 Mar. 2026
• Keep your neck, hips, and back flat and aligned.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
• Do not let your hips sag or lift your butt too high.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 28 Aug. 2025
• The fit is on the loose side and drapes just above the hips.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
• Pain in the back, hips, or pelvis that doesn’t go away.
  — Jenna Anderson, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
• Your core and legs stay tight so your hips don’t drop or rise.
  — Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 5 Mar. 2026
• Place your left arm on your left hip or raise it straight up.
  — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 23 Mar. 2026
• Place your right arm on your right hip or raise it straight up.
  — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 23 Mar. 2026
• Place the heels of your palms on the edge, next to your hips.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 28 May 2026
• Our daughter is on my hips right now.
  — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• Your core and legs stay tight so your hips don’t drop or rise.
  — Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 11 Sep. 2025
• Her second shot broke the right hip.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
• His wife was wounded in her hip.
  — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
• The fall shattered her pelvis and hip.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
• The bullet may have grazed his right hip.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
• Bend your right knee, hinge at your hips, and push your butt back.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
• The concept is old school-style of hip hop.
  — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• The place isn’t fancy … or hip.
  — Jonathan Shikes, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
• Her long, brown hair fell below her hips.
  — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
• Smart shot from the hip and let his knowledge flow.
  — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
• Try to get your hips at or below your knee height.
  — Will Stone, NPR, 31 Jan. 2026
• Press through your right forearm to lift your hips.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025

hip

2 of 3 adjective

• She knows how to get into all of the hippest clubs and restaurants.
• He tried to learn about the latest bands so he could impress his hip new college friends.
• Start with your feet hip-width apart.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 7 Oct. 2025
• The overall effect feels like the loft of the hippest kid in town.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
• Place your feet hip-width apart and elbows shoulder-width apart.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
• Stand in front of the box with your feet hip-width apart and engage your core muscles.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
• Stand with your feet hip-width apart, with the kettlebell between your feet.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 21 Apr. 2026
• Stand with your feet hip-width apart, with the kettlebell between your feet.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 17 June 2026
• Stand with your feet hip-width apart, with the kettlebell between your feet.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 26 Dec. 2025
• Stand in front of the box with your feet hip-width apart, engaging your core muscles.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Feb. 2026
• Keep your feet hip-width apart and toes pointing forward, then lower into a squat.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 19 Aug. 2025
• Stand with your feet hip-width apart, holding onto a stable surface for balance.
  — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 27 Dec. 2025
• With one end of a large resistance band looped under the arches of your feet, stand with your feet hip-width apart or wider.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 24 Nov. 2025
• With one end of a large resistance band looped under the arches of your feet, stand with your feet hip-width apart or wider.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 11 Mar. 2026
• With one end of a large resistance band looped under the arches of your feet, stand with your feet hip-width apart or wider.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 11 May 2026
• To perform a lunge safely, start in a stable, hip-width split stance, Hribick advised.
  — Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 15 Apr. 2026
• Land with your feet hip-width apart, with soft knees, and then immediately sink back down into the squat.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Dec. 2025
• These days, the guests skew younger and hipper than outrageously wealthy (though room rates are still nothing to scoff at).
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
• Charlotte doesn’t try to be a mini Atlanta or a hipper Raleigh.
  — Bill Bootz, Charlotte Observer, 23 Dec. 2025
• Move into a plank position, aligning your shoulders to your wrists and keeping your feet hip-width apart.
  — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
• Mexican food is hipper than ever.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
• But Obama's center projects a younger, hipper, less stuffy vibe than its general ilk.
  — Susan Page, USA Today, 15 June 2026
• But don’t worry, the retro vibes remain—albeit now with a decidedly more hip, slightly cheeky spin.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025
• Start with your feet hip-width apart, toes pointing straight ahead or slightly outward, and put a kettlebell on the floor between your feet.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 9 Jan. 2026
• Keep your hands about shoulder-width apart or slightly wider, and your feet hip-width apart, pressing your heels towards the floor to enhance the stretch.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 14 Oct. 2025
• In the last couple decades, however, the enclave has emerged as one of Seattle’s hippest neighborhoods.
  — Harry Cheadle, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2026
• But a vampire-centric film — up against a dramedy/thriller — was perhaps a bridge too far for even a hipper Academy.
  — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
• For a nightcap, wander over to nearby Nê Cocktail bar, one of Hanoi’s hippest watering holes.
  — Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026
• From high-end fashion to late-night cocktails, here’s how to spend a day in Ho Chi Minh City’s hippest neighborhood.
  — Dan Q. Dao, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
• Speaking of which, the neighborhood—considered one of Chicago’s hippest—is a cultural hub with renowned restaurants, funky cafes and trendy bars.
  — Gabriela Ulloa, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2025

hip

3 of 3 verb

• Bend knees and hips about 45 degrees and stack knees and hips on top of each other.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
• This week's exercise is a cool way to stretch the lower back and hip with one simple move.
  — Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2021
• Choreography is usually taught through the body, limb to limb, hip to hip.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
• Drive your right knee upward to hip height, then switch legs quickly one after the other while keeping your core tight.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 31 Dec. 2025
• Pet friendly, family friendly, yet still hip.
  — Samantha Dunn, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
• Slowly lift your left knee to hip height without leaning or tilting toward the weighted side.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 31 Dec. 2025
• Laureano narrowed his stance to hip length for a quicker, more direct path to the ball with less head movement.
  — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
• Big Papa’s nod to hip hop The restaurant’s name and theme are inspired by hip-hop culture.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
• Greg Bell hurt his back and hip on the second-to-last play of Thursday's seven-on-seven session.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2022
• Complex was and remains deeply rooted in music and street culture – from sneakers and skaters to hip hop royalty.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 June 2023
• Perfect for layering, this Polartec sweater is polished enough for dinner with the parents but hip enough to wear to class.
  — Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored, 3 Dec. 2020
• We're still glued together, hip to hip, holding each other up, not covering as much of the floor, but owning & loving the space that's ours.
  — Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
• The scene is distinctly young and hip with a mix of convivial groups and couples and the throwback 70’s & 80’s era setting is playful and lively.
  — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Its imaginative interactive displays explain the evolution of genres from gospel to R&B to hip hop.
  — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• As Utah embraces the ways of the surfer, the color palette moves from grayish to yellowish, and then, when Bodhi hips him to skydiving, from yellowish to cloudless blue.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
• Join a celebration of family and community, enjoy a mix of brews and arts, go to a country music concert, attend a party that supports education or watch a science fiction film set to hip hop beats.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
• But Katseye’s look had subtle touches that pushed the common visual motif forward, according to Leon, whose subversive approach to fashion over a decades-long career has often appealed to hip audiences.
  — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
• This was the new dope, combining the dusty digging-in-the-crates mindset of the Natives Tongues hip hop crew and vintage R&B vocals distilled by the gospel roots of his rural Richmond church upbringing.
  — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• The brand is already gearing up for its 2026 installation, which will take place November 1-6—an extended version to keep up with its growing demand for this special event that truly honors hip hop music and culture.
  — Essence, 4 Nov. 2025