Sentence examples for body erect from inspiring English sources

In both lifts, the lifter must complete the lift with feet in line, body erect, arms and legs extended, and the barbell in control overhead.

Finally there is a glimpse of a bird in black silhouette, resting in shadow on some open limb, with body erect and tail hanging straight down.

This vertical posture was typical of late dinosaurs, and presumably, like those of birds and mammals, the dinosaur joints had locking mechanisms to reduce the muscle energy required to hold the body erect when standing still.

As one bird dives and swims toward the other, its partner arches its back and fluffs itself up, cat-style, until the diver bursts through the water right next to it in the "ghost display," wings extended, body erect.

You may be familiar with research from Harvard and Columbia Business Schools about the effects of expansive physical poses -- feet wide apart, body erect, hands on hips (think "Superman" or "Wonder Woman").

The mistle thrush is quite terrestrial, hopping with its head held up and body erect; when excited, it will flick its wings and tail.

The nearest auks faced the invaders with bodies erect and fearsome beaks thrust forward.

Here, they danced with one another, for one another, their bodies erect, tracing slow circles in a formal waltz, twisting their wrists in the sky.

But whereas the kathak dancers often held their bodies erect and let their arms point upward, the tap dancers tended to bend loosely toward the floor.

Maggie Cloud and Sarah Haarmann, in turquoise and purple versions, respectively, of Toogood's costume, explored the stage with Toogood, their movements anchored in ballet, legs turned out, bodies erect.

During his 2008 wake, Medina's body stood erect and was leaned against a wall by his coffin in his mother's home in San Juan.