While maintaining an erect position, the arms are stretched out forward parallel to each other, the shoulders being kept back and the chest not cramped.
If we examine the human skeleton in an erect position (Fig.
Then rise to an erect position, then go down again.
As healthy and well-developed muscles keep the spinal column in an erect position, which conduces to the health of the organs of digestion, the child should be taught to avoid all positions but the erect, while studying or walking.
Such employments call into action the muscles that support the spinal column in an erect position, and the languor or uneasiness is muscular pain.
Stem of Sigillaria pachyderma in an erect position, covered by successive deposits of sandstone and shale; one of the stems is bifurcated.
The Dirt-bed of the Island of Portland, containing stumps of fossil Cycadaceæ in an erect position.
In Derwent Valley, Van Diemen's Land, fossil silicified trees, in connection with trap rocks, have been found in an erect position.
Either of these stretching movements will give you an erect position, and you can maintain this thereafter by keeping the head in the right position-chin inward, downward and backward.
They are inclined to pull the shoulders forward and make it more difficult to maintain an erect position.
Sit slightly forward from the back and maintain an erect position, with the chin held in, downward and backward.
By his fierce struggles he once nearly regained an erect position, but numbers crowded through every passage, and he found himself stretched on the floor securely bound and hampered with many coils of rope.
The iron had rusted into their very souls; and, whilst they with difficulty maintained an erect position, pain and withering despondency were indelibly marked in every line of their vacant and care-furrowed features.
This is like the former; but only that two of the Eye Glasses serve merely to reinvert, or to erect the Image, that so it may be inverted at the Bottom of the Eye; and therefore may shew the Object in its true or erect Position.
This consists of an ancient soil, having embedded in it the stumps of many trees, still in an erect position, with remains of living plants, and the bones of recent and extinct quadrupeds.
They present themselves as prostrate and flattened striated stems, or as similar uncompressed stems growing in an erect position, and sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet or more.
To cause to rise up, or assume anerect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
Erecting eyepiece, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position.
Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail.
A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect positionon the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erect position" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
