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  • noun Plural form of deltoid.

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Examples

  • Last Wednesday morning in a renovated turnbuckle factory in Park Slope, six female performers with significant deltoids were warming up on trapeze swings when a neighborhood man wandered in through the studio's barn-like doors.

    Brooklyn Crew Hangs in There Lizzie Simon 2011

  • He shifts in his seat and I marvel at newly-defined deltoids.

    The Cougar Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

  • Possibly because he shared a portion of her advance, Casey's portrait of Hamilton -- depicted as a brooding hero with rippling deltoids and a penchant for Delphic utterances such as "Fearlessness is ignorance" -- is not especially revelatory.

    Susan Casey's "The Wave," on monstrous ocean waves, reviewed by John Lancaster John Lancaster 2010

  • "Your brain does not think in terms of biceps and deltoids," says Myers.

    Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2012

  • He shifts in his seat and I marvel at newly-defined deltoids.

    The Cougar Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

  • Possibly because he shared a portion of her advance, Casey's portrait of Hamilton -- depicted as a brooding hero with rippling deltoids and a penchant for Delphic utterances such as "Fearlessness is ignorance" -- is not especially revelatory.

    Susan Casey's "The Wave," on monstrous ocean waves, reviewed by John Lancaster John Lancaster 2010

  • Possibly because he shared a portion of her advance, Casey's portrait of Hamilton -- depicted as a brooding hero with rippling deltoids and a penchant for Delphic utterances such as "Fearlessness is ignorance" -- is not especially revelatory.

    Susan Casey's "The Wave," on monstrous ocean waves, reviewed by John Lancaster John Lancaster 2010

  • Last Wednesday morning in a renovated turnbuckle factory in Park Slope, six female performers with significant deltoids were warming up on trapeze swings when a neighborhood man wandered in through the studio's barn-like doors.

    Brooklyn Crew Hangs in There Lizzie Simon 2011

  • You have Bella, a remarkably inexpressive teenage virgin, a gentlemanly vampire, Edward, who's afraid to touch her for fear his bloodlust will take over and he'll gobble her up, and a Native American werewolf, Jacob, who doesn't have a prayer of landing Bella, but hovers protectively, showing off his six-pack abs and deltoids like a human muscle chart.

    Slow 'Eclipse' Knows Just How To Stalk Its Target 2010

  • The instructor, Theresa, wore loose black pants that rode just below her hipbones and a strappy brown tank top that showed off exquisitely defined deltoids and biceps.

    The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010

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