deltoid
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All of the X-Men were strong, their muscles etched from deltoid to abdomen to quadriceps.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2023
He dislocated an ankle, broke his fibula and tore the deltoid ligament in his right leg last year in a 27-7 victory over Iowa, knocking him out for the rest of the season.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
Mariners: LF Sam Haggerty received an MRI, revealing an isolated deltoid strain.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
The deltoid, the thick muscle that creates the rounded lines of the shoulder is the major abductor of the arm, but it also facilitates flexing and medial rotation, as well as extension and lateral rotation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
They would aim for the muscle that Tariq, in a professorial voice, called the deltoid.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Johnson, squeezed into a wig so tight we get a vicarious headache, has pumped up his deltoids to nearly reach his prosthetic cauliflower ears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
That’s despite Linda Hamilton returning to the franchise for the first time since 1991’s Terminator 2, plus Mackenzie Davis and her deltoids.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2019
You hope this pleasant-seeming youth has a career to match the size of his deltoids and his daddy’s mouth.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2019
But the longer I was there, the more I seemed to thrive under the limitations, enjoying the pull in my deltoids as I beat things by hand.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2018
Great golden bands caught his sleeves in the dip between biceps and deltoids, and his neck was dark with obscure tattoos.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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