How to Use hamstring in a Sentence

hamstring

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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
  • Bohm had missed 11 contests with a left hamstring strain.
    — Aaron Bracy, ajc, 11 June 2023
  • However, in their next game, Williamson strained his hamstring and hasn’t been on the court since Jan. 2.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This workout separates the three major muscle groups of the lower leg: the glutes, the hamstrings, and the quads.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 May 2023
  • He was sidelined between May 29 and June 20 with a strained right hamstring.
    — Dave Hogg, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Jankowski missed three weeks with a hamstring strain earlier in the year.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • Muscles that cover two joints, like the hamstring which extends across the hip and knee joints, are at the highest risk.
    — Nicole Wetsman, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
  • Cold stretching can lead to injuries such as pulling a hamstring.
    — Katherine Kallergis, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Key members of that group for the deadlift include the traps, lats, erector spinae, glutes, and hamstrings.
    — Men's Health, 11 July 2023
  • But Bader, who is on the injured list with a hamstring strain, will be a free agent after the season.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • Barrero stretched the area of his right hamstring during his first at-bat of the game between pitches.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the best stretches for runners include the hamstring stretch, quad stretch and the reclined figure-four stretch.
    — Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Russell missed the match with a hamstring injury sustained in the second half of last week’s 2-1 win over San Jose.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Urías missed 58 games with a hamstring strain suffered while running to first base on the first day of the season at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs.
    — Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2023
  • Samuel missed four games last year with a hamstring and ankle injury.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Luis Rengifo, who had been out with a hamstring issue, played his first game of the spring, striking out and grounding out.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Who to sit: Jamaal Williams (NO) will likely miss some time with a hamstring injury.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Marvin Loría came off in the 80th minute due to a non-contact leg injury, holding his hamstring.
    — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Ramsey missed games early due to a knee injury, and Howard missed games late due to foot and hamstring injuries.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The most frequent roadblock has been hamstring injuries, which robbed Watson of eight games in 2023.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • His replacement, Miguel Rojas, went on the injured list with a strained hamstring last week.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • With Kupp sidelined for most of training camp because of a hamstring injury, Nacua got first-team snaps.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Jiménez is trying to get back into a rhythm after spending April 5-14 on the injured list with a left hamstring strain.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Carlisle said Brissett, who missed Wednesday's game with a sore hamstring, will be available.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The right-hander will get the starting assignment in the series finale against the Mets in place of Alex Wood, who went on the injured list with a strained hamstring.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Again, hamstring strains are a common injury during a marathon.
    — Katie Henwood, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The portable size is best-suited to handle the needs of smaller muscle groups, such as the calves, hamstrings, arms, and forearms.
    — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Brooks actually tweaked a hamstring on the return but returned to the game after some plays off.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Seager missed over a month earlier in the season due to a hamstring injury suffered in April.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 22 July 2023
  • But a handful of problems tend to routinely hamstring progress.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
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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
  • The sale of the TV rights is a gamble that could hamstring Barcelona going forward.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • Julio Jones’ hamstring just isn’t right and he can’t be trusted for the rest of this season.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • But the Astros lost Jose Altuve in the eighth inning with a strained left hamstring in the eighth inning.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Knox will miss his first game this season due to foot and hamstring injuries.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2022
  • That may signal the industry will be hamstrung by low prices in the future.
    — Cameron Baker, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The Sox had to finish the game without Yoán Moncada, who left in the fifth with left hamstring tightness.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Morgan has been declared out for the second straight week (hamstring).
    — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Since last week, markets have been hamstrung by the fear that inflation is going to hang around.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The third baseman, who missed two games this week with back and hamstring tightness, was seen wincing and grabbing his lower back at the plate, in the field, and again in the dugout.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
  • The site’s terms of service, however, list some rules that would hamstring Trump himself.
    — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Now, one-half of the Turner duo is done for the season with Justin suffering a Grade 2 hamstring strain trying to beat out a double-play grounder.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 21 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
  • 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
  • There is Henrik, picking at a meal in the hospital after hamstring surgery.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • Djokovic has been dealing with a sore left hamstring throughout the tournament and will try to fend off De Minaur, the Australian who is perhaps the fastest player on the men’s tour.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 22 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Backup point guard Rajon Rondo (left hamstring strain) didn’t play against the Heat because of his injury.
    — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The Ravens could be without wide receiver Sammy Watkins (hamstring) for a second straight week.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Obi Toppin returned after missing five games with a strained left hamstring and scored eight points. ...
    — Brian Mahoney, ajc, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Instead, focus on making your glutes and hamstrings the prime movers throughout each rep.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 15 June 2023
  • The Jets used Maynard, still not fully recovered from his hamstring problem, as a decoy in the Super Bowl.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Still, the 49ers might need to fortify their secondary in the wake of injuries to Ward and backup safety Kai Nacua (hamstring), who is expected to miss a few weeks.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2021
  • And Ryans’ unit has done it without standout safety Jimmie Ward, the leader of the secondary, who’s likely out for at least a few more weeks with a Grade 3 hamstring strain.
    — Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2022
  • On that play, Waynes lined up in press coverage, cut toward the middle of the field and injured his hamstring right as wide receiver Randall Cobb made the catch.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2021

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