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    Use "shoulder" in a sentence

    shoulder example sentences

    shoulder


    shouldered


    shouldering


    shoulders


    1. He claps me on the shoulder and rests it there


    2. I lean to pick it up, but Dad puts a hand on my shoulder


    3. Tobias claps Kevin on the shoulder


    4. Kevin grabs my shoulder


    5. Toby hit Raj on the shoulder


    6. His left hand cups around an imaginary shoulder


    7. She hoisted the babe on her shoulder and pointed at the statue


    8. A smaller piece clipped Onidas's shoulder, shattering the bone


    9. “It’s full of loose ends!” Then she’d poke me in the shoulder with her needle


    10. “I don’t like to wait,” Scar said, leaning over the shoulder of the nervous computer operator who everyone in the United Order just referred to as The Operator

    11. Scar slowly raised his gun and pointed it above his shoulder, aiming it roughly at her face


    12. Red pointed over his shoulder and Big Petey turned to see a new host of soldiers enter the room from the elevator


    13. Big Petey kicked them off and then reached back over his shoulder to lift the guard off his back and launch him through the air


    14. Strutting back into the bedroom, Liam hoisted the putter over his shoulder and heaved the bottle to his lips


    15. Fortunately for the people of Jerusalem, an archer spotted Blitzer fired an arrow into his shoulder, causing him to lose his grip and fall


    16. GEORGE BUSH puts his hand on John’s shoulder


    17. shoulder, they slip between the


    18. He puts his arm around John’s shoulder


    19. If I see one more set of Robbie William’s shoulder flames, or swirls or whatever they are, so help me …


    20. It was a twenty minute ride halfway down the city and he got so absorbed in her that Tahlmute elbowed him on the shoulder when he jumped, but doostEr still finished his sentence before he dismounted and then walked back to Tahlmute

    21. John reaches over, puts his hand on Dave’s shoulder


    22. He puts his hand on John’s shoulder


    23. He looked over Cat’s shoulder at the mother and daughter combination further


    24. Travis starts frantically trying to look over his shoulder to his back to see the new tattoo


    25. display of disgustingly twee kiddie birthday cards with his shoulder and knocking


    26. Russ puts his hand on John’s shoulder


    27. Ricci touches his shoulder, but Ahmed pulls away


    28. He buries his face in Ricci’s shoulder


    29. shoulder and grinned again as he said, “A soul


    30. Some of it has crossed the shoulder blade so there was a little pain at that point but that's exactly what I need to let me know it's on there

    31. awkwardly on the shoulder like a child


    32. He screeched off the motorway into the hard shoulder and skidded into a u-turn


    33. He began speeding along the hard shoulder to the left of the tailed back traffic, oblivious to the angry stares of other motorists


    34. " he squeezed his shoulder


    35. They draw pistols from shoulder harnesses, point them toward Russ and John


    36. Russ gives John a friendly pat on the shoulder


    37. He raised the bat and drew back behind his shoulder, aiming at my right kneecap


    38. Russ looks back over his shoulder at the truck, which quickly begins to blaze


    39. John looks over his shoulder in the direction of the firing, takes off his wedding ring slowly, studies it sadly for a moment, digs out a small hole in the ground with his hand, buries it, puts a rock on top


    40. Ahmed runs to him, falls on his shoulder, weeping

    41. Out on the hard shoulder, cocooned within the thin metallic hull of his


    42. Al Snafu looks over his shoulder


    43. ‘He didn’t hurt you, did he?’ Stephen asked fiercely, as I succumb to tears, sobbing into his shoulder as he helplessly pats my back


    44. manoeuvred the Aston Martin onto the hard shoulder and stilled the throbbing beast


    45. “What?” roared the leviathan beast standing on the hard shoulder


    46. ‘What are you going to do with yourself, Liz?’ Stephen asked, changing the back pack he has over his left shoulder to the other shoulder


    47. The priest offered a shoulder to lean on and


    48. stout wooden stick, slung his bag back over his shoulder and patted the oak tree,


    49. The drive home is relaxed, Stephen’s arm round me, I nestle into his embrace and rest my head on his shoulder


    50. The jacket shoulder linings cut into my armpits and began to split













































    1. She shouldered past him and started to creep down the stairs


    2. swagger that a broad shouldered and confident young man at ease amid a timeless


    3. The guys, sporting whatever medals they have, are very smart as they stand straight and square shouldered with others of their generation


    4. Stu represented the epitome health and vitality, walking with all of the swagger that a broad shouldered and confident young man at ease amid a timeless landscape should possess


    5. of heavy shouldered travellers and of thumping cab boots,


    6. He’s not as big as I thought he would be from what Gilla had told me, more wiry and full of pent up energy than the broad shouldered man that is his friend … he grins at me, his eyes laughing, before turning to Berndt


    7. shouldered dressing gown, she started to sing


    8. They shouldered their packs and set off


    9. Cursing his lack of forethought in not bringing any food or drink with him, he shouldered his back pack and, with a despondent glance at the options in front of him, made a decision and set off in what seemed like the likeliest direction


    10. The first to enter was a fair but rather broad shouldered Highlander, followed by two pale grey gnomes in black goggles

    11. Alert,” the stocky, broad shouldered commander of Security said without looking at Martin


    12. Without another word, Roidon shouldered the gun, entered the control room


    13. Pamela turned to face a very broad shouldered young


    14. He was broad shouldered and held a lot of weight around his middle


    15. A mist was settling on the hill tops, but Illeander shouldered no such mist


    16. "Hold tight to his arm! Hold tight to his arm!" So she held Santa's arm tight and close, and he shouldered his pack, never thinking that it was


    17. "Only when the old man shouldered his tree, and prepared to move on, I


    18. The man who’d hit her, shouldered his way into the small hall, catching her by the neck with one hand, his fingertips pushing deeply into her muscles like steel claws


    19. She studied Truman’s face for a clue, but he was captivated totally by the broad shouldered man descending the ladder


    20. They quickly shouldered their gear

    21. Miguel loved to rock power moves with style, so he threw in high shouldered spins on his back for an artistic transition in between his hydraulic nutcrackers


    22. shouldered the weapon again and, when Tifa had finally caught


    23. superheroes,” the officer shouldered me through the door, “like Kick Ass!”


    24. shouldered rifle into position, intent in ending what


    25. I had my HK416 out, it wasn’t shouldered though, although it was chambered and off safety


    26. They had their guns shouldered


    27. I shouldered my AK, but didn’t aim it and said, “No


    28. He was broad shouldered and muscular, with Zach’s eyes and hair


    29. The Hunters shouldered their packs and their bows and headed off toward the cabins


    30. My mother must’ve been exhausted, but she shouldered Grover

    31. A broad shouldered man with Major’s stripes started ordering the civilians around


    32. I heard rock wal s rumbling behind us as the bul shouldered his way


    33. One shouldered my rucksack and, by waving their guns around, cleared travellers off two wide seats facing each other in a not so over crowded second class carriage


    34. He shouldered his rucksack and disappeared – and that was the last I ever saw of him


    35. We thanked them politely, shouldered our rucksacks and walked


    36. The Chosen did what he was told, had even shouldered it as taught by whom he vowed to serve no more


    37. Concealing and chaining his bike a hundred metres from the road, Jarek shouldered a pack containing a bottle of water and enough bread and biscuits for two days, then spent the day trudging through dense undergrowth


    38. Angrily he shouldered his knapsack and jogged to school


    39. when the weight of the world was shouldered by her parents, leaving her to enjoy her childhood dreams


    40. A tall, broad shouldered sat with his feet propped up on the desk

    41. While there was much about her son that Mary could not understand, she did love him, and she most thoroughly appreciated the willing manner in which he shouldered the responsibility of the home


    42. “New people,” sneered the commander and shouldered his AK47


    43. Houses shouldered so closely to the wall that half-way down the stair he found himself within arm's length of a window, and halted to peer in


    44. Armed and uniformed men ran to him but he shouldered them aside to run into the offices of the General Aide-De-Camp, a man named Lord Allemande


    45. Blackfin shouldered his way through the crowd and knelt at my side


    46. It floated hazily, then leaped into startling clarity—a tall man, mightily shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily muscled limbs


    47. Conan lifted it and set it on a dais, and Valbroso shouldered him aside


    48. Even though it looked a tad too small it appeared as if it would fit the broad shouldered half-breed


    49. The man was tall and broad shouldered,


    50. The man was tall and broad shouldered, with slicked-back










































    1. It wouldn't budge at first but after a little persistent shouldering it gave way, opening onto the garden and the sunshine once again


    2. Actually, more often than not it was some other member, or collection of members of the family who had to insist upon stepping in and shouldering the unexpected burdens whenever necessary


    3. and the constant demands for his views which meant shouldering


    4. Shouldering a large backpack his intentions were obvious


    5. Picking Dawn up bodily, he swung her and the chair up onto his shoulder, then ran across the room, shouldering his way through the French doors


    6. Shouldering its way through the mountain that shrank before this devastating onslaught, it thundered its way down, pouring an avalanche of mud, rock and salt water into the lake far below


    7. Shouldering the Buster Sword as he listened to the hissing whir


    8. “Ok, Akito, it's time for you to go to sleep now,” said Taisei while shouldering him to the study


    9. "Not one of the troopers? Didn't I see you shouldering a spear earlier? Isn't that beauty mark still on your head? You're in on this


    10. "Here," said the other worker, shouldering past him to pull a card from its slot

    11. With a soft sigh I step aside- he’s already shouldering his way inside and if I don’t move he’ll just move me


    12. They moved in soft thick darkness, in which she sometimes glimpsed vaguely gigantic walls sweeping up like black ramparts, or great crags shouldering the stars; at times she sensed echoing depths beneath them, or felt the wind of dizzy heights blowing cold about her


    13. There was a touch of unreality about the whole—purple slopes pitching up to that fantastic castle, toy-like with distance, and above it the white glistening peak shouldering the cold blue


    14. The Marines who had stood at parade rest with their rifles shouldering since they had first entered the room moved to the “Port Arms” position


    15. Shouldering his pack the young prince left the Inn,


    16. Imagine wanting full rights as an American citizen so much that you unsuccessfully resist Jim Crow injustices by shouldering the problems that slavery and colonialism imposed on the black race


    17. Kombos said “I will erect a platform in my yard and take a salute each morning as I send my people, shouldering their jembes (hoes), off to the fields …” And they all laughed at the thought


    18. Back down the rock face she went, Matt shouldering the rope this time, Max with a torch on the other side of the channel


    19. Shouldering the butt of the MG42, Ingrid carefully aimed her machine gun at the command group and slowly squeezed the trigger


    20. He dragged out the stubborn roll of carpet, shouldering

    21. Though he was right in a way, he was shouldering too much


    22. Not taking the time to celebrate her triumph, Farah threw away the now empty missile launcher and grabbed a second SA-24, switching it on and shouldering it


    23. shouldering the responsibility for the wellbeing of their employees


    24. ii) Holding wife and children in heart – shouldering responsibility


    25. The ethical master accepted the thirty percent they offered him because he had a very special reason for shouldering the burden of this particular task: the ample amount gold he would receive was to be reserved for a most important cause, the time when our master Jesus (pth) was to return


    26. M A Sheikho, and then left the man and rushed into the crowd of people, shouldering his way to the middle of the group


    27. Shouldering the guitar, Stripehead walked to his position centre-stage, tapped the distortion pedal, and struck a chord


    28. in the fact that you are shouldering


    29. Shouldering his way through, Clayton paused only long enough to take directions from Luke before forging onward into the dark shadows that apparently housed the roller coaster


    30. Corey cursed more than usual as he wrestled with the heavy window, shouldering it up

    31. There was a nearly hidden path and they crashed their way through the vines and branches, Teller shouldering his way with his head down


    32. strolled about cleaning their pistols and shouldering broad-bladed


    33. JD was shouldering Cecil’s now-immense canteen by its straps like a backpack


    34. shouldering the white man’s burden


    35. wave and effortlessly shouldering the bulk of its force aside each time it came at him with


    36. I could see us shouldering through the sea and sucking wind into our sails, helm in


    37. Stryver, a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of delicacy, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life


    38. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race


    39. Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favourite, specially, to their longing arms; and shouldering itself towards the visage of the Lord Chief Justice in the Court of King's Bench, the florid countenance of Mr


    40. Stryver shouldering him towards the door, with an appearance of showering generosity, forbearance, and goodwill, on his erring head

    41. In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;


    42. But the cure from time to time looked into the church, where the kneeling boys were shouldering one another, and tumbling over like packs of cards


    43. Shouldering their bags they trudged, the red Egyptians


    44. Pip," said Wemmick, triumphantly shouldering the fishing-rod as we came out, "let me ask you whether anybody would suppose this to be a wedding-party!"


    45. "I believe I will try it myself," said the Woodman, and shouldering his axe, he marched up to the first tree that had handled the Scarecrow so roughly


    46. Then we distributed the various burdens among us—guns, ammunition, food, a tent, blankets, and the rest—and, shouldering our packages, we set forth upon the more laborious stage of our journey


    47. Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow


    48. Its November 19 issue showed on its cover a 1930s-era photograph of a young man dressed in a three-piece suit and shouldering a box of apples with a sign that said: “Unemployed—buy apples—5 cents each


    49. She was shouldering through the sardine can-packed bodies, trying to get closer to me


    50. If a company owes a ton of money, you’re shouldering that burden when you buy the stock





    1. His shoulders were little larger than hers, he was soft spoken and self deprecating


    2. His grip was crushing Brandon's shoulders and the others closed in on him


    3. "Brandon!" they cried, hoisting him up on their shoulders


    4. Grabbing my shoulders, he turned me round to face him


    5. He tucks his hands into the pockets of his overcoat, pulling it tight upon his shoulders


    6. ‘A friend, eh?’ He said brutally, striding across the room and taking me by the shoulders


    7. She moved over to stand behind him, the stool was high enough so her breasts were on top of his shoulders


    8. He wrapped himself around her shoulders and imagined the warmth of his mate, the way they gripped each other in the warm sky


    9. They were hooked together with a four-strap double-cross at the shoulders since there wouldn't be room for a long-rope in the city


    10. John shrugs his shoulders

    11. He thinks about it a minute, shrugs his shoulders, chugs some more until the beer is empty, tosses the can in the corner on top of his jacket


    12. were being lifted from her shoulders


    13. He adjusted his Boucheron cuff links and shrugged his shoulders comfortably into his tailor made suit


    14. She shrugged her shoulders and replied, “Must be, I suppose


    15. He had a thick and detailed metal stick strapped over his shoulders, shiny black low-calf boots and several shiny black canisters strapped to his upper thighs


    16. Concerned, I hurry over to where she is sitting and, putting one arm round her shoulders, give her a hug


    17. Trying to comfort her, though horribly aware that there is nothing I can say which will make things better, I sit beside her uttering soothing noises, one arm round her shoulders as she sobs for some minutes


    18. lustrously across her shoulders and down her back


    19. She was a rich milk chocolate color with half-loosened curls that fell over her shoulders and were tied back with small pins behind her dainty ears


    20. falling dishevelled across shoulders and curving round her breasts

    21. Ricci composes himself, takes Ahmed firmly by the shoulders and looks him directly in the eyes


    22. The accountant shrugged his shoulders, took a packet of low tar cigarettes


    23. The art visible on his neck, shoulders and arms was high quality, tasteful and eclectic


    24. shoulders, not worn, as that would be too much admission of sensibility, but


    25. attached to your shoulders


    26. weighed upon her shoulders as if she was walking into the maw of a deeply black and


    27. and time upon His shoulders, succumbing to the myriad energies of relative balance


    28. From behind the columns of the flanking courtyards, the men of the crew began to emerge, dressed in white, coifed with heavy turbans, long black beards down their chests, long sideburns on their shoulders


    29. and I relax and feel my shoulders drop as the


    30. Danton’s shoulders twitched as he tried to alleviate the tension that he could now

    31. MacKenzie straightened his shoulders, breathing hard as he spoke


    32. shoulders we will step to freedom


    33. I shrugged my shoulders, wondering at his question; I thought that after the lengthy conversation we had just had, it would be obvious to him what I've been looking for -that is metaphysical knowledge


    34. " This time, Wambach and Posjic hunched over his shoulders looking for Squidy, too


    35. I felt rough fibres catching at the corners of my mouth as though I were being force fed a winding sheet, and then, as stars started to explode across my eyelids, I realised with a flood of relief that my head and shoulders were still covered by the sacking


    36. It didn’t seem to bother Timms much to see the image of the Chief like that, with bundles of control cables thick as her thighs and arms coming out of her pelvis and her shoulders


    37. Rampone jetted across with Wambach on his shoulders


    38. Three hours later, Chief Evelyn Horcheese sat strapped into the command chair with 184 control conduits fanning out from the interface ports at her shoulders and pelvis


    39. Throwing my coat round my shoulders, I walk down to his car with him


    40. As it happens, I end up on the sofa with my feet tucked under me and Nick’s arm loosely lying round my shoulders

    41. His shoulders relax …


    42. He comes over and puts his hands on my shoulders soothingly


    43. Our shoulders and hips and knees pressed together


    44. In a flash both Beniamin and I embraced, and then all four of us, arms around each other’s shoulders, huddled together and so began the insane babble of briefly-realised freedom


    45. She rolled onto her side and propped her head up on her hand, her black hair falling dishevelled across shoulders and curving round her breasts


    46. He bent forward again, gripping this non-descript, runtish specimen by both shoulders


    47. The accountant shrugged his shoulders, took a packet of low tar cigarettes from his jacket pocket and offered one to his companion, who shook his head


    48. The light fleece top that she had ultimately decided to bring along sat snugly over her shoulders, not worn, as that would be too much admission of sensibility, but comforting nonetheless


    49. The sky weighed upon her shoulders as if she was walking into the maw of a deeply black and ebonised catafalque


    50. people in the stadium watched as the soldiers lifted Son onto their shoulders












































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    Synonyms for "shoulder"

    berm shoulder articulatio humeri shoulder joint carry bear take up support accept take on sustain edge projection verge collar ledge border ridge shove bulldoze crowd thrust elbow bump

    "shoulder" definitions

    the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm


    a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg


    a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula


    the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder


    a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road


    lift onto one's shoulders


    push with the shoulders


    carry a burden, either real or metaphoric