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    shin


    shinned


    shinning


    shins


    1. Her shin bone was probably in pieces, too, but her brain couldn't wrap itself around the pain


    2. He reached inside his jacket and pulled out a battered old pair of faded, blue ribbed shin pads


    3. "Do you see these, boy? These are magic shin pads and you know what that means don't you?"


    4. Terry continued to stand there, staring at the shin pads, his face displaying the mixed pleasures of vacant distrust and horror


    5. "He owned these shin pads, just like Mr


    6. Aye lad, when he was twelve he was rubbish, but once he started wearing these magic shin pads, well, the world was almost his oyster"


    7. The battered and bruised shin pads suddenly seemed to glow and to shine


    8. "I'll give these shin pads to you on one condition", said the old man


    9. "You can have these shin pads if you promise me you'll always love football more than anything else in the entire world"


    10. And so, with a flourish and a bow the old man gave Terry the shin pads, showed him how to tuck them into his socks and then told the dog to give the boy his ball back

    11. As soon as Terry started to kick his football around the park he could feel the magic in the shin pads start to course through his veins


    12. With his battered old shin pads tucked safely inside his knee length socks, he ran riot through every level of schoolboy and junior football, scoring record numbers of goals at every age


    13. Terry continued to dazzle on the playing field and without quite remembering why, he stood firmly by his old and battered shin pads, even though he was offered bright shiny new ones nearly every week


    14. In his hands he held a plush crimson velour cushion and on the cushion was a pair of brilliantly glittering shin pads


    15. On each shin pad the letter 'T' had been embroidered in genuine, full carat diamonds


    16. "In the park, when you were what, eleven? The dog and me? Blue shin pads?" asked the old man, hopefully


    17. Do you remember what I told you about the shin pads?"


    18. I offer you these bright and shiny new shin pads in exchange for your tatty old ones


    19. A few seconds later, the old man exchanged the bright, sparkling, monogrammed shin pads for Terry's battered old blue ones


    20. magic shin pads and you know what that means don't you?"

    21. Terry continued to stand there, staring at the shin pads, his face


    22. rubbish, but once he started wearing these magic shin pads, well,


    23. The battered and bruised shin pads suddenly seemed to glow and


    24. "I'll give these shin pads to you on one condition", said the old


    25. "You can have these shin pads if you promise me you'll always


    26. the shin pads, showed him how to tuck them into his socks and then


    27. could feel the magic in the shin pads start to course through his


    28. With his battered old shin pads tucked


    29. Terry and his magic shin pads were a phenomenon; they


    30. battered shin pads, even though he was offered bright shiny new

    31. cushion and on the cushion was a pair of brilliantly glittering shin


    32. Blue shin pads?" asked the old man, hopefully


    33. As Ken tries to keep the doctor in his line of fire Helen steps back with all her weight and employs the heel of her boot on his shin


    34. fairies were in control of the entire building, running around in their little shin


    35. I applied a hard tag to his chest as his feet slid into my shin guards


    36. He put his other hand out and caressed her ankle and shin


    37. still rubbing his shin


    38. Flitter trod on Betty Alpha's feet but she forgave him after she kicked his shin in retribution


    39. He becomes entangled and falls, dropping his doughnuts and fracturing his shin


    40. This time a low kick connected with Raven’s shin, the bone threatening to snap under the strain

    41. Trog sauntered into the servant’s path, but Jeddah managed to maintain his poise—and hold onto the tray with Sespian’s tea—without tripping when the cat rubbed against his shin


    42. With a prescription and a small packet containing three fresh dressings for an unhealed contusion on his left shin, where he had hit an aluminum tube coming in the top of the trailer, Blaine Morrow found himself standing out on the sidewalk in front of the hospital


    43. Bruiser locked the doors on his car and the five of us started walking towards the indoor atrium where the shin dig was supposed to be taking place


    44. She aimed the pistol at his shin


    45. agent in the shin


    46. As there was nothing wrong with her reflexes, she pulled away, turned around and kicked Rick on the shin


    47. I assumed that the man had been loading limestone when the axle snapped, pinning his shin to the ground


    48. Totally in charge now with her healing instincts taking over, the would-be nurse gently rolled up the pant leg of the injured shin


    49. While we spoke, Louella had brought out a first aid kit and had cleansed the bruised and swollen shin, then she wrapped it loosely with a gauze bandage for protection


    50. I reacted with a kick to his shin











































    1. The other man shinned nimbly up the ladder


    2. "And the moons are just flat plates shining in the sky at night" Flitter shinned down the long arched limb and dropped to the ground, the sack about his waist bulging with the fruit


    3. They shinned their ‘I’m so much better than you’ look right at Nico, though she knew Selena’s eyes always had that look


    4. “I had shinned out to the middle to open the bleeder valve under the pipe and… “ “You were in the middle before he arrived


    5. It shinned in only four directions to the north, south, east and west


    6. diamonds, rubies, and emeralds shinned before her


    1. It was then that Rayne came forward into the light and he saw her brightly shinning violet eyes


    2. Looking upward, Brice saw a distant circle of light, as bright as a brother moon, shinning down upon them


    3. Carmen woke to a dim light shinning through her bedroom window - only the window was in the wrong place - and the bed was hard


    4. He had to look behind him to see if anyone was following: he couldn’t believe that Caroline Steepleton would be shinning her radiant smile and making such a coy motion with her finger for his benefit


    5. The moonlight was shinning


    6. She looked radiant, shinning so brightly it was hard to look at her


    7. I remember how it called the Missi Sipi “flowing earth shinning brilliantly in the sun, hiding all it washed before it under its turbid surface


    8. The sun was shinning and light sparkled off the water drawing my attention


    9. The emperor stayed on deck with us since the sun was shinning and it wasn’t too cold that day


    10. Eastwards, the man pushed on; heading in a direction opposite to that of the slowly moving, merciless sun; shinning down through the dead-empty skies with all its might, and vanishing every trace of life from the ground

    11. The two boys were picked up in a shinning black flying carpet transportation that seated eight


    12. remained seated on the shinning shore


    13. Lantern: When the lantern of the Hermit comes shinning on our awareness it is a symbol of clarity coming through and life revealing precious gifts to us


    14. Jessica look up and saw the milky way with its blanket of stars shinning brightly


    15. The stones grew in illumination and it was as bright as the sun shinning


    16. shinning on the face of a new born child


    17. The teacher of it is the Messenger (cpth) who is the guide, the guided one and the shinning lamp of truth


    18. but most times shinning healthy green as new grass in spring


    19. twelve brilliantly shinning white stars that symbolize the glory


    20. and in that shinning wealth so

    21. seems to be a brightly shinning historical feature of an absolutist


    22. In spite of the adversity, my son was growing into a shinning


    23. There is no shinning of sun,


    24. Look at the shinning Moon!


    25. The sun is always shinning


    26. The Sun is always shinning,


    27. Before you would see the shinning sun in the sky blue,


    28. Clydie's nose was shinning like a red sun, and the lights on her tack were whirling like, uh,


    29. with lightning flashes shinning through in the distance


    30. She was a bright lamp on the dark night and a shinning star for me

    31. With the look on his boss’s face – his eyes, now brightly shinning and a subtle licking of the lips, Phillip didn't know who it was on the other end of the line – but, he could tell that whatever they were telling Ray, it must be something awfully good


    32. With his moisture-laden cheeks now a bright shinning red, he turned to face his computer


    33. It felt as if the sun were shinning directly on his face, though where he stood was in shade


    34. Tinkle, glowing blue, her blonde hair shinning in the blue light


    35. As I continued up the long driveway, I noticed that he had massive lights shinning onto the barn where the I


    36. A few hours after the Giants' siege of Odalia, the Cavalli crested over a hill where they could see the grand city shinning in the distance


    37. Who has connected its bodies to each other in such wonderful organization? Who has fixed a light moon and a shinning sun therein?


    38. The long counter in front of him displayed an assortment of hot and cold small cabinets, an old till, sugars pourers, cartoon cow milk sachets, and shinning condiment containers


    39. While she was stretching her eyes caught something shinning and glinting


    40. His eyes were shinning with mischief and a devilish grin was on his lips

    41. Taking her place in the middle of the first row out of the three perfectly straight lines, Claire looked out into the crowd although it was hard to look up with the spotlight shinning right in her eyes


    42. shinning like a beacon


    43. I was up stairs in a second, and down the lightning-rod in another one, and shinning through the dark for the lean-to


    1. With one man holding me under each armpit I was dragged out of the flat and bumped down the stairs, my shins taking a mother of a battering as they hauled me out into the morning air


    2. With tooth-cracking determination he jogged on thru the pain in his side and shins, the rawness in his throat and the sweat chafing his crotch


    3. Then I notice that not only were both his legs horribly scarred with purple and red, burned tissue, but both his feet were missing, his shins just tapered into ragged, pointed stumps


    4. I’d look really good on my wedding night with gashes in my shins … trying to shave on a boat while standing on one leg would not be conducive to a smooth finish I feel


    5. With every screech of metal on the wooden floor and with every yelp that came out of his mouth as he smashed his shins into rotting theatre seats, Archibald expected to be attacked by the hounds of hell, but nothing stirred within


    6. By the time that she had whacked him with the frying pan six or seven times, kicked his shins repeatedly and doused him in an entire litre of Vimto, Danny’s other worldly cool had been completely shattered


    7. their shins and on their knees


    8. flipped over to rest on her elbows and poked her toes into my shins


    9. that came out of his mouth as he smashed his shins into rotting


    10. businessman,' Ish said and kicked me in the shins

    11. Ish kicked hard in the man's shins


    12. shins repeatedly and doused him in an entire litre of Vimto,


    13. Her head dropped back as she moved, her long hair tickling his shins as she arched


    14. This includes your heels, feet, elbows, hands, and shins


    15. He was quick, clawing and pecking at my shins


    16. Nipping at his legs, they sank their teeth into his sinewy shins, anchoring him in position


    17. Sim could have kicked him in the shins


    18. I grab my foot, wincing, and consider kicking her in the shins


    19. Jack was trying to kick him on his sunburnt shins whenever he got


    20. knees, ankles and shins, where her shaving removed

    21. kick Karen, catching her on the shins and thighs


    22. came all the way down to my shins


    23. He was rubbing his shins and scowling ferociously when the clerk returned with an enormous copper tray loaded with a teapot, cups, a plate of cookies and hearty sandwiches


    24. and kicked him in the shins


    25. After she patted the vest down on him she strapped on the pads around his forearms and shins


    26. al-‘iyn) the bone marrow of their shins will be visible


    27. Her shoulders felt touched, and she shivered and moved the candle closer to her crossed legs on the hard tile floor, feeling the flame’s warmth lapping against her shins


    28. This was no good, so she increased the threat, kicking him in the shins, then drove her knee between his legs


    29. dress that reached the mid-point of her shins, a pink and white


    30. high priests and scribes asked that the shins of the crucified be broken so their deaths are sped up

    31. Jesus and the two men being crucified to break their shins and speed up their deaths


    32. It is said that the shins of Jesus were not broken, as he was said to have died before the guards could do so


    33. he neared the cloister a light mist hung around his shins hugging


    34. at one of the officer’s shins


    35. around my jean covered shins with the tape


    36. His riding boots settled on its polished surface as he crossed his legs and tapped impatiently at his shins with a riding whip, pushing his torso backwards into the padded leather of his chair


    37. She would never have believed that Donald could behave so badly, but had a decent sized bite on her forearm and several bruises to her shins to prove that her son was, after all, strong willed and determined


    38. The first man picked himself up, tore his vest free, and clobbered the ears of the man whose shins I had kicked


    39. He wrapped his ropy arms around his shins, looking comfortable and relaxed


    40. This time the same thing happened, only a tidal wave of poop and wet toilet paper broke against the rim of the toilet bowl all over Mike’s shins

    41. The shins of the other two crucified but still alive criminals were broken on purpose


    42. " She kicked him in the shins and stomped out of


    43. The abdomen and legs were swollen and the shins black and blotched


    44. Once this task was finished, Conrad began asking her a series of medical related questions, regarding her ankle, as he quickly but thoroughly examined the rest of the cuts and bruises on her shins and arms which she'd sustained when she hit the sharp edges of the airport curb


    45. ” Clifford lifted his paws to Therese’s jean-clad shins


    46. Clifford put his paws up on Than’s shins


    47. Clifford put his paws on Than’s jean-clad shins


    48. shins and chest guard


    49. Before Zac could react, the two wolves behind him lunged forward stabbing him through both shins with wooden stakes they had concealed in their sleeves


    50. little boot squarely in the shins turned the laughter into a yelp and a curse































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    Synonyms for "shin"

    shin shin bone shinbone tibia clamber scramble shinny skin sputter struggle

    "shin" definitions

    the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle


    a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg


    the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet


    the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle


    climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling