buttocks

Example Sentences

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Airlines measure capacity using something called an available seat mile, which is one mile flown by one seat, with or without buttocks.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

If your pelvis sits at an angle—maybe because your legs are different lengths, maybe because you have scoliosis—the midline of the buttocks can tilt, and, boom, a crooked crack.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

This nerve is the largest in your body, branching from the lower back through your hips, buttocks and down each leg.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

He barely made it a few feet before he felt a stinging pain as first one foam round, then another slammed into his buttocks and his back.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

I dug my buttocks farther into the bricks, hoping perhaps that my body might sink down to the ground and disappear before my mother emerged as a ghost to greet me.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat