How To Use Torso In A Sentence

Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them.
For a man so vain about his face, why is he content to flaunt his wrinkly torso and pot belly? The Sun
And it will definitely help with that upper torso. Times, Sunday Times
Seconds later he'd leapt into car with the kids, his bare torso on some one's lap on the front seat.
Bronze idol of Ganapathi, with finely proportioned torsos and exquisitely designed limbs is a cynosure of all eyes.

She was sleeping deeply, her tentacles curled gently about her shelled torso.
The jeans fit him fine, but the turtleneck was a little on the tight side as the fabric stretched across his upper torso.
Her rotund torso and delicately etched facial features evince the monumental simplicity of an ancient fertility goddess.
The torso armour itself had coral shaped into the symbol of the ancient Merfolk.
The rectus abdominis muscle inserts at the fifth through seventh costal cartilage, and it helps flex the vertebral column and provide support for the torso.
Todd and his team found the mechanisms behind the visual effect by analyzing a 3 - D picture of a human torso.
A glimpse of his bare torso set my pulse racing.
Lower your torso to your lap, hanging your arms over your legs for 30 seconds.
Her torso is rock hard, squeezed by metal struts that also keep her back rigidly upright. Times, Sunday Times
Holding the block, extend your legs straight up in the air so they your torso and legs make a 90-degree angle.
And she still needs crutches to give her torso the stability to stay upright. Times, Sunday Times
Combined with the lobster-red sunburn of my torso and the lily-white band about my middle created by my downturned long-john, I resembled a cylindrical French flag.
From the center of its torso, a razor tongue extruded suddenly, lunging catercorner at its intended victim. Notes from the peanut gallery
Gavin seems happier than I've ever seen him in Bachelor world, where he lives the life of supermodel Sultan, wooing compliant, star-stuck ladies in deserted theme parks, providing them with burlesque ie stripping classes, going on excursions to clifftop picnics where shrieking fillies are made to hurtle across the cliffs by Tarzan slide, clinging round his powerful torso. The Bachelor: Grace Dent's TV OD
The verticality of the torsos and a repeated motif of small, close-to-the-body hops appeared to pay tribute to the medieval music and dances that inspired the piece.
The space doll - a matryoshka, or traditional Russian nesting doll - is actually a close-to-lifesize head and torso made of soft material to simulate human tissue, with embedded sensors to measure radiation exposure.
The actions of the legs, torso, and neck are essentially the same in both poses, although these actions feel different when you turn topsy-turvy and reverse your body's relationship to gravity.
But the obese person in athletic competition is at great peril because the fat around his torso acts as an insulator, refusing to allow the body's heat to escape.
Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human.
They form a diagonal shape at the bottom of the torso, and can be divided into the front triangle and the back triangle.
Contracting her abs, she keeps her chin lifted and raises her upper torso as high as possible.
He lifted his legs above his torso and pushed swiftly away, launching himself onto his feet.
Her torso is too long for the jacket or too short for the dress. Rightsize Me
Edward slid his shirt over his head, exposing a lean muscled torso and flat stomach.
The arm pull should be somewhat downward to break the torso out of the water vertically and provide for a forward lunge and initial kick which will take the body to its first surface streamline position.
Monique lay on her stomach, her torso mimicking the motion of a slow wave. DOUBTING THOMAS
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On both sides of the area where the torso would have been, there were hand prints which luminesced from the superglue fuming/dye stain development.
The most important other piece is an upper torso of Athena, who occupied the centre of the gable.
Energy explodes from torsos, courses through limbs, and shoots out fingers splayed, reflexively, like a child's.
Step four: Bend over at the waist till your torso is paralell to the ground. (consult someone MUCH smarter than you are to explain what paralell means and what a torso is) Think Progress » VIDEO: On Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing, Armed Right-Wing Activists Accuse Obama Of Tyranny
ThinkGeek's Crawling Zombie Torso Gelatin Mold is just what every elegant dinner party needs, especially if you make an aspic-and-baby-marshmallow gelatin salad with it. Boing Boing
The priestly vestments were designed to cover the body in multiple layers, each layer exaggerating the size of legs, torso and head.
The wild and provocative intonations of the danse du ventre hit our ears as one dancer broke into convulsive movement, arms, legs, torsos echoing the percussive sounds in angular responses.
These crunches work the abdominal muscles, which are used to stabilise the torso, protect the internal organs and keep the stomach area tight. Times, Sunday Times
Unexplained injuries to protected parts of the body such as the buttocks, thighs, torso, frenulum, ears and neck are suggestive of child abuse.
For 25% of volunteers there was an average inch loss of up to 1 inch from the torso measurements including the bust, waist and hips.
He soon regretted that thought, however, as he saw the welts and scars covering her torso.
It won't work for men with shorter torsos: "It will only emphasize how short-waisted they are," she says. Stylish Guys Steal Short Sleeves From Nerds
Ruha did not hesitate; she swung her arm up backward and drove the tip of her jambiya deep into the impostor's torso. The Veiled Dragon
I notice that her torso and arms bear dozens of small white scars. Times, Sunday Times
With your left arm, reach through the gap beneath your right arm, past your torso. Times, Sunday Times
My voice broke and the tears fell down my face as I wrapped my arms around his solid torso.
BEING able to cry on cue is good but it's a toned torso that really makes a performance stand out. The Sun
A glimpse of his bare torso set my pulse racing.
Almost all of my torso and lower body had been numb in the first place, so the result was merely a dull ache.
Horace warned writers against grafting together inconsistent images, which, he said, was like sticking a man's head on a horse's neck or giving a woman's torso the nether parts that ought to belong to a fish.
Only the head, one arm and part of the torso remain intact. The Times Literary Supplement
They were all filthy rich (they had gold bars taped to their torsos).
He pared his figurative forms—a torso, bird, kiss or head—down to essences, often in the form of ovoid, cubic or tubular masses. The Shape of Things
Her torso is rock hard, squeezed by metal struts that also keep her back rigidly upright. Times, Sunday Times
His torso was covered in a fine cloth and had a thin layer of body armor under it.
The rash began on his back but spread to his torso and extremities.
The favourite shaping material of stays was whalebone, cut into thin strips and sewn in a fan pattern to make the torso appear rounder.
By 1700, armor was largely out of use, but a specialist class of heavy cavalry, the cuirassier, continued to wear torso armor and a helmet.
Catching a mercenary's outstretched torso with the broad surface of his shield, the Colonel hurled his adversary high overhead.
The torso of a woman in a hoodie failed to fool a police motorcyclist who spotted the driver making a careless manoeuvre. Times, Sunday Times
The nylon / Lycra bandeau tankini ($92; at Macy's West stores) adds shape on the top with a built-in bra, while the low-rise bottom lengthens your torso.
Calculations by Prof Graeme Ruxton at Glasgow University and Dr David Wilkinson at Liverpool John Moores University show that a 25-tonne brachiosaurus used 80% less energy foraging for food when its neck reached 9 metres from its torso than if had reached 6 metres. Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists
The man on the doorstep had the bulky upper torso of a weightlifter. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The entire skull and torso and most of the upper and lower limbs are present. Times, Sunday Times
The second type depicts the entire standing female form in repousse with a full frontal face and torso; the pubic region is again emphasized by incision.
Shave from me with sharp razors my lips, my nose, my ears -- ay, and tear out the eyes of me by the roots; and there, mewed in that featureless skull that is attached to a hacked and mangled torso, there in that cell of the chemic flesh, will still be I, unmutilated, undiminished. Chapter 12
Or Dr. Frankenstein concocting from his menagerie of elemental particles a wondrous creation but one that could, in an instant, mutate into a destructive monster, severing pinkies, arms, perhaps even torsos. The “45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet” Fountain
Alex fired madly at Gabriel's body, piercing his torso, legs, and arms multiple times.
A gray henley stretched across his powerful torso. Entice Me at Twilight
The gigantic, colourful idols are made with straw and clay, starting with the making of straw figurines for the torso.
Musical instruments transform into birds, then seashells, Egyptian figures, fish, flowers, Greco-Roman torsos and painters' palettes. A Modern Movement Unto Himself
He pulled off his damp shirt and washed his face and torso, drying them on a thick blue towel. Somewhere East of Life
He had sudden visions of the giant kender incarcerated in the Haven jail, with most of his torso and his topknotted head and shoulders sticking up through the hole they would have to cut in the roof. The Soulforge
Shirts with thin vertical stripes slim the torso. Times, Sunday Times
They may not have known much about epiphyses or growth centers of bone, nor could they have seen them since neither the torso nor recovered limbs were defleshed by boiling them in water. Portrait of a Killer
He peeled off his T-shirt, revealing a chunky tanned torso that reeked of Lifebuoy soap.
The one Ariel did recognize shone bright white in the center of the robot's upper torso, a lemniscate crossed by an arrow at an upward angle: the sign of the Managins. Mirage
When the bar reaches knee level extend your torso and stand erect with your straight down at your sides, exhaling as you do so
Inset: The erector spine muscles lift the torso and the rhomboid draw the scapulae towards the midline.
Leastways in New Zealand a jumper is a warm, often woolly garment worn over the torso by either gender to stay warm FODDER • by Paul Graham
He is not a bad dancer - his sweeping candelabra arms and rapid footwork bring nuggets of pleasure - but at times he is oddly graceless, his long arms and toned torso mismatched by a pair of surprisingly stubby wee legs.
Padded dress form torsos are a common sight at pattern companies, factory workrooms and professional design studios, but they're not a trade secret - dress forms are readily available to sewing hobbyists, too.
The torso is indeed very well. Times, Sunday Times
The moment his torso lurched forward in the bed, she placed her hand soothingly on his back. Stories from the War
His unidentified mate suffered second- and third-degree burns to his face, arms and torso and required two skin-grafts.
Often, as I am sipping on a low-fat caffe latte in some fashionable bistro, I will look up and see a jogger stagger past, his sweltering torso festooned with tattoos, at least one reading "Only the Strong Survive. Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On!
These crunches work the abdominal muscles, which are used to stabilise the torso, protect the internal organs and keep the stomach area tight. Times, Sunday Times
And the scar that runs the length of my torso is the markings of an earthquake Eve Ensler: The Gift of Cancer
Gently pull the left leg towards your torso until you feel the stretch. Times, Sunday Times
A glimpse of his bare torso set my pulse racing.
The great player had an extraordinary body, a powerful torso atop thin legs.
Pressing down the contents of the full bowl with his thumb, he suddenly plumped upon the ground, the crutch beside him, the one limb under him so that he had the seeming of a legless torso. CHAPTER 2
The earliest robes were made of rectangular pieces of cotton cloth and typically three were worn: an inner robe, from the waist to the knee; an upper robe around the torso and shoulders; and an outer robe used as an overgarment.
York threw his body at the man, his sword jabbing at the man’s torso. Fateful Journeys
Here, the standing figure of the group is presented as Orpheus, while the torso of the dying youth is disguised as an attendant lion.
Mines tended to cause lower body injuries whereas most of the victims suffered head and upper torso wounds. Times, Sunday Times
The star's arms and torso are covered in various designs and drawings. The Sun
It is characterised with gentle hand movements, a distinctive heave of the torso and soft walk.
Stay-making also became a separate craft, and separate corsets became a common part of female fashion, variably modelling the torso under the clothing.
He carefully dried his pubic hair and groin and briskly scrubbed his torso.
For their own safety, the two rescuers should lift together, and bring the swimmer into the canoe in stages - arms over gunwale, torso over gunwale, one leg over, etc.
My pear-shaped face is longer than my torso and my smile is almost the size of my helmet.
All of the curves and contours of her torso seemed to fit right into mine.
The Mule tried to hold himself upright, his torso severed and disjointed by a flabby crack in the mirror, his arms flailing out to either side and trying to latch onto the shoulders of two other stoned zombies who'd risen with him.
The torso should be straight and upright. Times, Sunday Times
While the couple's bodies do not seem as tall and elongated as runway models, their slim slouching torsos fit the body ideal of contemporary advertising campaigns.
There is no struggle: no flailing limbs or desperate twists of torso for a last lungful of oxygen.
Instead, he prescribes taking a stance with your heels directly below your body and focusing on keeping your torso upright.
And the massive, tailless ocean sunfish, another relative, is essentially a huge disk - consisting of head and torso - pushed along by a couple of fins.
The muscles writhed and swelled over his back and shoulders, leapt up in knotted strands like leathery hawsers from his shoulders down to his raw and bleeding wrists; a convulsion of superhuman power swept over his torso like the shock of an earthquake. Archive 2007-11-01
The key to Stewart's success is the quick thrust he gets with his torso and upper body as he tries to rush past a defender.
Place a dumbbell to the right of a flat bench, then lie facedown on the bench so torso is at top, hips at the edge.
Though their sleek torsos and short, limber legs may seem catlike, civet cats aren't really felines.
The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings.
To deepen the stretch, slowly extend arms and round spine forward, letting the weight of the torso fall forward.
This sculpture describes the torso of a female in a standing position.
It exposed a stripe of her zebra hide, which is the cute nickname we have for the brown and pink intertrigo fungus that lines her torso. Blood Lite II: Overbite
Don't neglect your form - concentrate on smooth movements, and keep your upper torso steady while you pedal.
The torso is indeed very well. Times, Sunday Times
I turned and observed both of these young inebriates tumbling down the stairs, their hand luggage bouncing along beside flailing limbs and gyrating torsos. Border disorder: passages into Mexico
At the base of the arches, four bacchantes, their torsos ending in consoles…. Savoring The Past
She stands up decisively and pulls her t-shirt down at the sides, accentuating the waistless bulge of her torso that protrudes for some distance from her body.
A graceful, medium-size cat - neither cobby nor svelte - the Egyptian mau has randomly distributed spots of varying sizes and shapes on its torso.
Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal – porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor. The Wrong Box
Deborah Willis celebrates the alterative body of a black female body-builder: hard-muscled and tattooed, the woman's physical prowess is evident through the close-up of her contoured back and torso.
A female teaching colleague once showed me her legs, arms and torso covered in livid bruises.
Subtle movements include curving languid reaches, then tiny rises onto toes or a shift in torso played out in the individual squares.
Their torsos were generously oiled and sprinkled with pollen, and they stamped their feet like toreadors, kicking up the sand and whipping up a fever of excitement among themselves and the girls who were watching them.
I fell backward onto the bed and winced as the pain shot up my torso from my injured leg.
There's nothing substantive to latch onto - all I remember is a blur of lights, noise and sweaty torsos.
In each square, two or three precise, sinuous lines evoke either a torso, bent legs or shoulders.
Cross your arms over your chest, squeeze your glutes and slowly raise your torso until your body forms a straight line.
Although he possesses a muscular, classicizing body, his torso has begun to thicken, indicating that he is middle-aged.
The man unwound the rope from his torso, then took another length from his canvas bag. DESPERADOES
Her arms and torso were very badly injured. The Sun
For one-pieces, make sure the torso isn't too long.
The fan club has chosen three designs of Lee in his classic poses - all featuring a bare-torsoed Lee, two including Lee's signature weapon the nunchaku - and fans are invited to vote for their favorite design on the Internet.
Then, the legs tauten, the balance shifts into the balls of the feet, the torso seems to lengthen, and suddenly someone has a leg against her ear. Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions
The car has seven airbags, which include side curtain airbags and a large new side airbag for the front seats that protects the torso, abdomen and pelvis.
Reggie the only source he could possibly have for something so stupid and obviously wrong and idiotic is his lower torso Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers.
Yes, but only if you have willowy thin legs that are longer than your torso. Times, Sunday Times
And she still needs crutches to give her torso the stability to stay upright. Times, Sunday Times
‘The pain can be anywhere, though it's usually on the torso or head, and can be misdiagnosed as toothache or earache,’ says Marian.
Stand tall with the kettle bell at chest height and elbows tucked in against the torso. The Sun
Suddenly a clenching pain in his lower torso seared throughout his body, stopping him just short of his target.
However, the only ‘great whites’ likely to be on display are the untanned torsos of some of the bathers or the gleaming smiles of the children as they play in the water, unaware that inflatable sharks will be prowling the pool.
Sometimes he was on my legs, other times he was stretched out prostrate across my torso.
See, you forget that these people exist if you stay at home, avoiding the fair like some sort of black plague that ushers with it human mutants wearing matching mall-photo-booth t-shirts stretched out over gigantic, distended Orca bellies, fried foods running in congealed little balls down their protruding and exposed torsos, long rat tails of hair hanging … The Archive
Associated Press A 49-foot-tall head is set on a torso on a floating stage on Lake Constance in Austria. NATO's Role, Japan's Scramble, AT&T's Deal
After all, we live in a culture where the walls of any Abercrombie and Fitch store are adorned with some dude's naked torso and skimpily dressed girls, where JCPenney, Macy's, and Aeropostale's websites all feature comprehensive selections of lacy G-strings and thongs on their juniors pages. Would You Buy This for Your Daughter?
He moved through plaster-and-wood human torsos and a period of making assemblages, but animals seem to be his favorite theme.
With sows kept in tethers in a stall, their movement is restricted with a belt around their torsos just behind the front legs or around the neck.
For the best fit around the torso, position the body pattern pieces with their length along the crosswise grain.
Roll right, supporting your torso on your right forearm, raising your hips and stacking your feet so your body forms a plank.
The baldhead, silly beard and naked torso would have been edgy enough to get front-page attention, why add to it an emaciated frame? Rosalyn Hoffman: Bald, Bewhiskered, or Vajazzled - Who Cares? Just Be Healthy
Gradually, we recognise this as an optical illusion: the linga and yoni are, in fact, the solid-painted negative spaces between interlacing torsos; we see now one, now the other element of the pattern.
He places it in the foreground of the picture, lapping with its little pink tongue at the deep red blood which trickles down the torso of the tortured satyr.
In Orion Duckstein, Taylor found a tallish dancer who could lope and hop, and whose torso could twist back on itself with just the right awkward skill.
In each animal, there are seven changeable parts of the anatomy: head, torso, front legs, back legs, tail, wings, and pincers.
This seems especially bizarre when I heard another report that a man's bare torso was pixelated on the American news networks so as to ensure that no viewers would be offended.
A herma, herm or herme is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height … Kuklas Korner
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He shook his head, the firelight reflecting off the shine of his bare torso.
There are female mannequins, mannequin heads, male mannequins, torsos and separate mannequin parts.
Contract abs, dropping tailbone to stabilize torso against ball, then straighten legs.
On the professor's desk at the front of the room was the upper torso and head of a man. Times, Sunday Times
Jumping on top of him, she began thwacking him with it in every possible place - the head, the face, the chest, the arms, the ears, the legs, the torso, everywhere.
She emerged from the banquet room dressed in a scarlet ball gown that fit every curve of her torso.
The bar remains close to her body as her torso lowers, providing a greater stretch through the hamstrings.
Keep your torso steady and your movements controlled, and raise the bar until it touches or almost touches your midsection.
A strong torso is essential to correct posture, so exercises such as crunches for the abdominals and extensions for the back muscles can be extremely helpful.
Marcus assisted Vandal in putting on what he called the lorica segmentata, the main part of amour that protected the torso.
The air bag in the steering wheel will protect the head and torso.
In other words, these deep-layer abdominals are designed to minimize motion of the torso and back and correct positions that threaten sound alignment.
Amid another group of fragments, the visitor should remark particularly an arragonite torso (121); the upper part of an officer, holding a standard (122); and a red granite bust of a monarch wearing the neumis How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
The quiet square evokes the classical arcades and statuary of antiquity (the sculpture is a torso of Aphrodite).
What is left of the bombers is their upper torsos, their heads and their faces.
And despite the ink on his arms and torso, he has kept his nose clean. Times, Sunday Times
A long torso may mean roomier accommodations for a baby, making it less likely for a woman's belly to bulge outward.
Gold embroidered flowers ran their way around her torso.
The next cell held three krait—creatures with reptilian heads and human torsos and serpent abdomens. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
He thrust again, knocking James' blade away and pulling out a dagger with his spare hand, swiping at James' torso.
She is broken into four separate images, each of which shows a portion of her body - first her head reclining on upthrust arms, then her torso, thighs and feet.
Although still a big guy, he has considerably trimmed down his once hefty waistline and pumped up his upper torso.
Why just do lunges when you can do a lunge and a torso twist?
Landsberg "- whose masklike face, hemmed-in torso and superannuating arcs of radiance are more scratched than painted - may sharpen your appreciation of the insistent lines and textures in several drawings and a lithograph of female nudes in the show's opening gallery. NYT > Home Page
Shirts with thin vertical stripes slim the torso. Times, Sunday Times
To take liquid out of one of Frank's dolls, D twisted the head off and poured the water out of the torso.
The statement is cut short as the blind man draws his sword underhand, drives the point into his damaged right foot, and contorts his body with torso straining into a ninety degree bend. Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
He took off his shirt to reveal his tanned torso.
The twins were joined at the torso, their heads at opposite ends, with their legs splayed out at right angles beside their trunk. The Sun
After the care and instructions label and separate brand label are sewn to the inside of the front panel, side seams on the leg and torso are closed and the garment is turned over.
The actions of the legs, torso, and neck are essentially the same in both poses, although these actions feel different when you turn topsy-turvy and reverse your body's relationship to gravity.
Another modern mystery has been the tyranny of torso, as for the past few years the hipster trouser has reigned supreme.
Sophie sustained first, second and third degree burns when a bowl of boiling water spilled over her torso and legs.
Expressionist distortions abound, from the angular streets to hunchbacked nine-year-old Lieschen whose "torso stood oddly twisted on its own axis". Thrillers – review roundup
Sit on a decline bench, hooking your feet under the footrest, knees bent, and lean torso back slightly.
For barbell rows, I used an underhand grip and kept my torso at about a 70-degree angle in relation to the floor.

How To Use Torso In A Sentence

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