How to Use posture in a Sentence

posture

1 of 2 noun

• Human beings have an upright posture.
• His swing looked smooth with a steady posture.
  — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
• Philbin had worked on my back, posture and knees for about a year.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• My posture is better and my back doesn’t hurt as much.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 14 Oct. 2025
• What is going on with the posture?
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
• Colorado can and should adopt that same posture.
  — Lynn Granger, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
• But that posture may have already changed.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• That’s the right posture for this roster.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 17 June 2026
• Triggers can be smells, sounds, places, postures or tones of voice.
  — Dr. Andrew Garner, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
• Squeeze your core and glutes to maintain good posture — don't bend your knees.
  — Men's Health, 8 May 2023
• From a standing posture, rise up onto the balls of your feet.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 13 Jan. 2026
• Too often, his hands are by his side with his posture upright.
  — Fred Katz, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• The game made Clara mindful of her posture and her gait and her smile.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
• Your posture, and the way his demeanor and stare changes in an instant.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
• And the curled posture of the embryo follows an ovoid shape like that of an egg.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026
• Ohtani has posited that some of his woes are because of his posture at the plate.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 May 2026
• Grateful doesn’t scrape the surface of the posture of our hearts.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2023
• The good news is that poor posture doesn’t develop overnight.
  — Danielle Zickl, Health, 15 June 2026
• That moves a bit of blood flow to the area and helps rectify a slouchy posture, too.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Sep. 2025
• Building better sleep posture now pays off over time.
  — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
• Engage your core, keep your knees slightly bent, and your posture tall.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• These all put more pressure on that hip over time, so try to switch up your posture to avoid hip pain.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 29 May 2026
• That posture appealed to a risk-averse electorate.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
• Pack said such steps reflect a proactive posture.
  — Michael Dorgan , Peter Doocy , Kelley Kramer, FOXNews.com, 28 Feb. 2026
• Where my posture takes shape in fetal and frog-like form, and no one is judging me for it.
  — Erika Houle, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• So what will my posture be tomorrow?
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 June 2026
• That proactive posture is worth a fortune.
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
• Yao’s public posture aligns with that logic.
  — Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• White has the eyes, the sideburns and the athletic posture to pull it off.
  — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 19 Mar. 2023
• His posture keeps him from wobbling to either side and falling out of the jump.
  — Joy Sung, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2026

posture

2 of 2 verb

• Now, a lot of those rumors that go around could be posturing a little bit.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
• Any leaks at this point could be posturing in case of a potential trade.
  — Mark Selig, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• Help your back and posture by raising your computer screen up to eye level.
  — Medea Giordano, Wired, 19 Sep. 2020
• With both sides publicly posturing for the coming legal fight, the stakes are high.
  — Douglas Hanks june 16, Miami Herald, 16 June 2026
• Some artist types may posture that clouds add texture, depth, and a note of majestic melancholy.
  — Craig Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2022
• Not to spin, not to posture, but to name the reality and outline our first steps forward.
  — Matthew Mathison, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• There are rumors swirling and everyone is posturing during this time.
  — Matt Babcock, SI.com, 6 June 2018
• When Akhmedov postures up for a big attempt, Cummings slips out and returns to his feet.
  — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
• This was all done without posturing, the need for attention or even discussion.
  — Michael O'Connell, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2019
• So is a strike before the World Cup really on the table, or is such talk just posturing?
  — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• And equally, the Democrats who are currently posturing are playing a good card badly.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 22 June 2018
• Nobody who’s been following the news over the past decade believes that politics will lead to anything but posturing in the wake of tragedy.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
• Working from his opponent’s guard, Jackson was able to easily posture and rain down punches from the top.
  — John Morgan, USA TODAY, 9 June 2018
• In the weeks, possibly years, ahead, Netanyahu will posture as a vigilant statesman.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
• Was Alderson posturing a bit, talking tough to make sure everyone agreed to a deal on Friday?
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
• The commentary is sharp and thoughtful, without posturing herself as an expert.
  — Martine Thompson, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2017
• Like in any negotiations, there is always posturing or issues that countries don’t agree with.
  — Philip Rucker, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• Gale was not an overtly menacing physical presence onstage, in the way many metal frontmen try to posture.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• The all-or-nothing mentality isn’t posturing.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Dec. 2025
• Of course, this could all be posturing on the part of Miami, possibly not wanting to lose leverage in trade discussions.
  — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
• To me, authenticity is the key, not posturing [some] sort of idea of solidarity.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
• Yet Leavitt appeared to suggest that Iran is merely posturing publicly.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
• Shockey leads Eva and their cameraman down the logging road to get a broadside shot on the bear, which is now posturing with his legs splayed wide to show his dominance.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2017
• Not long ago such talk seemed more like posturing than practical politics, and many assumed the two sides would quietly agree in June to extend the talks.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• The result was a 2018 Grammys that postured at trendy wokeness while devaluing the artists who have the most to say about our times.
  — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2018
• The president may just be posturing, trying to get Republicans in the Senate to act.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026
• The Enquirer’s Tyler Dragon reports that team and player aren’t close to a deal, but that’s likely just posturing.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• This outrage over Gardner’s lack of a town hall is driven in part by powerful forces behind the scenes posturing for 2020.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2017
• On a free kick from striking distance, Santos lined up and postured to take it, but instead dragged it behind him to set up Cole Bassett for a shot on the move.
  — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
• As for me, whatever posturing impulse had compelled my attendance at the 10-year had dimmed considerably.
  — Jordan Michelman, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025