gluteus maximus
Example Sentences
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So if you still have hope, get your soft, wide gluteus maximus off the couch, get informed and go vote.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2022
Instead, Davis has a bruise on his gluteus maximus, the main muscle that makes up the buttocks.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2020
About calves, hamstrings, Achilles, knees and weak glutes — they’re the three muscles in the buttocks: gluteus maximus, medius and minimus.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2019
Deep to the gluteus maximus, the piriformis, obturator internus, obturator externus, superior gemellus, inferior gemellus, and quadratus femoris laterally rotate the femur at the hip.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
By the time he slashed, Hazel had ducked between his legs and jabbed her Imperial gold blade into his gluteus maximus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.