How To Use Shoulder In A Sentence

I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool. Times, Sunday Times
The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
As Appling reached down for the ball, it took a bad hop and caromed off his shoulder.
He was a strapping lad with broad shoulders and quite tall.

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The styles are simple, with set-in shoulders, pared-down forms and the type of finish you might expect from ready-to-wear. When Just Any Old Lycra Won't Do
As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith. Archive 2008-07-01
Paul Temple pushes through a field of shoulder-high oilseed rape and twists one of the plants back to show me.
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Lia was looking around her shoulder, as if she was expecting a stampede of wild animals to come charging down the corner.
Webb had shoulder surgery in August, a so-called "debridement" procedure that amounted to a clean-up of his rotator cuff and labrum. Azcentral.com | news
As she got up and moved to support him, she noticed some strange dark stains on his left shoulder, which had been hidden under the pelisse before.
Slicked-back hair, a bushy Italian mustache, sleeveless Iggy Pop T-shirt, cut to show his shoulder tats - "wham" across the left, "pow" on the right. Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
She risked a glance back over her shoulder.
As a reporter he gets to rub shoulders with all the big names in politics.
The masseuse said she'd never known anyone with such knotted shoulders.
I wrapped my arms around him and he buried his face into my shoulder like he had earlier that evening, shoulders heaving as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
She felt a burden lifting off her shoulders and smiled at the carefree feeling that permeated her senses.
These electrical signals send electrical impulses across the skin to an implanted receiver/stimulator in the shoulder to the electrode leads in the arm and hand.
Many of these symptoms are a consequence of heavy repetitive work and neck compression caused by carrying heavy loads of water pails or wood on their head and shoulders for miles.
A part of me wants to snuggle up against his side and let him loop a lazy arm around my shoulders, but another part knows that I can't.
Ten minutes later while I was conversing with my client, I felt a tap on my shoulder.
Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder. Why Life is Now More Complicated
Sasaki huddled against the hot grains of sand, gritting her teeth, curled up in a ball and hugging her shoulders as if to keep herself from ripping apart.
Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
She refused and subsequently suffered injuries to her shoulder, pulled muscles and bruises.
It is women who mainly shoulder responsibility for the care of elderly and disabled relatives.
And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
Along the well-marked bridleway, he swung his jacket over his shoulder, neither hut, barn, nor building visible. THE OPEN DOOR
When I sat up again, I felt a pleasant glow spreading from my shoulder down to my elbow, and I found that the arm had complete freedom of movement again with almost no pain.
She measured me every which way: arms, back, height, shoulders, waist, hips, chest.
But as if divining his thoughts -- just as they passed through the dining-room door, Euphra looked round at him, almost over Funkelstein's shoulder, and, without putting into her face the least expression discernible by either of the others following, contrived to banish for the time all Hugh's despair, and to convince him that he had nothing to fear from Funkelstein. David Elginbrod
That put the pressure firmly on Best Mate's shoulders with the tension in the crowd palpable as the horses cantered down to the start.
She was already well on her way to becoming an amazon beauty, with long slender legs, perfect, glowing skin and light brown hair with copper streaks cascading over her broad shoulders.
When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders. Cytherea
The Queen heard it as well, for Margaret saw her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly.
Kevin Pratt, marketing manager of Cheapflights, the flight comparison website, prefers a brown leather over-the-shoulder man-bag. Briefcases are the new suspenders | clusterflock
At that point, Schmidt put an avuncular hand on Page's shoulder and brought him back to the real world. Now, with Page as CEO, that hand is less likely to be there.
The gardener strolled off, his golden gown soon lost in the golden expanse of grass, accompanied by several small animals which capered at his feet, circled his head or hopped off and on his shoulders.
The devotees were also treated for their excruciating pain in their shoulders, neck, back, thighs, knees, calves, ankle and foot.
He gripped her shoulders and made her face him, his concern turning to worry.
Joe had taken off his coat and was carrying it slung over his shoulder.
There was dark hair spilling over her shoulder, a soft voice whispering endearments in her ear.
They quite unselfconsciously continued to drape themselves over each other; one would rest his head on the other's shoulder, the other would wrap his arms around his friend.
She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
Demonstrations of guided missiles, of a patient taking what looks like a Barium swallow in front of a fluoroscope, and the father taking home movies of his child with a video camera and playing them back on his TV all give us pause to remember that whatever good or not-so-good aspects of our present-day lives, we stand on the shoulders of people who were true visionaries more than 50 years ago. Archive 2009-06-01
A small brown pouch is slung across her shoulder and chest. Times, Sunday Times
As she was starting to shiver, he gallantly wrapped his cloak around her shoulder.
This exercise is designed to develop the shoulder and back muscles.
He could not shoulder the burden alone.
Mac put a heavy hand on her shoulder and pushed her aside to allow Jon to stoop in the doorway and lay a girlish kiss on the girl's badly rouged cheek.
I need to make at least a 90-degree shoulder turn on the backswing.
When asked why the government did not rebut them as it did when anti-government stories appeared, he just shrugged his shoulders.
But, as he was dying, from his right shoulder sprang the androgynal Kaiomorts, who was the stock root of humanity. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute
Music has always had a tendency to glance back over its shoulder at the past, but the last few years has seen an unabashed spate of revivalism, from 60s garage rock posturing to the soi-disant Electro Clash phenomenon.
His head turned metronomically, his neck aching as he looked back over each shoulder in turn, again and again. THE LAST RAVEN
He gave her an encouraging pat on the shoulder.
They have only to glance over their shoulder and they see a mighty lineage stretching back. Times, Sunday Times
Heath's eyes softened and he dropped his hands to his lap, shrugging his shoulders.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
But the organist made his profession clear by explaining that the committee had just invited him to oblige the company with a solo on the piano, but that he had been hitting the champagne so hard that he doubted if he could tell the keys from the pedals, and he added that if they'd excuse him he would go to sleep, which he immediately did with his head on the shoulder of the lady recitationist, who tactfully tried not to notice that he was there. Cinderella And Other Stories
If I didn't have a shoulder to lean on or a compassionate ear willing to listen to me rant, I might've been tempted to quit.
Perhaps she was a businesswoman now, who normally wore her shoulder-length hair in a tight bun.
She had her arm bandaged from the wrist to the shoulder! Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
I come to a crew-cut young man in a military uniform-ish olive sweater with funny shoulder pads sitting in a little booth.
Her fingers dug expertly into the knotted muscles of my shoulders, pummelled my back, massaged the tension out of my neck.
Objective : To observe and analyze the effect of Cervicoshoulder Myofascitis treated catgut through point mainly.
He said he was stocky, not too tall, very broad shouldered and middle-aged.
She arched an eyebrow, then shouldered past him to smile at Red.
Wulfgar steadied her with a hand upon her shoulder, but she shook her head and peeled the legging back further. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Gonzalez has had his struggles when asked to carry a team, but the Royals don't need him to shoulder that heavy of a load.
She felt a light tap on her shoulder.
Firmin can supply ceremonial aiguillettes and shoulder boards manufactured from gold and silver wires for state ceremonial, aides de camp and senior officers.
She was a wisp of a woman, barely taller than my shoulders, with silvery hair and deep blue eyes.
These animals also have relatively large shoulder girdles, possibly to provide muscle attachment to support the weight of the huge head.
As long as you are willing, please let me know what I can do for you. When you are unhappy and want to cry on somebody's shoulder, I will stand before you immediately.
He sensed more than heard the scuffle of trainer shoes on concrete behind him and threw a casual glance over his shoulder.
The rub can be adapted for lamb chops, cutlets or a whole shoulder or leg. Times, Sunday Times
He did neither, but sat down hard when she shoved at his shoulders. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
When a hoplite line advanced shoulder to shoulder against the enemy, it was a wall of death. Alexander the Great
Grasp the bar with a shoulder-width grip and unhook it from the safety catch.
A shock of raven-black hair gripped his scalp tightly and fell down past his shoulders.
Jillie tossed her hair over her shoulder as she walked to her car, her back ramrod straight, feeling his eyes boring into her with every step she took.
Church's shoulders to reach to his ancles, and curiously inwrought with figures of birds, beasts and flowers. Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
My fatuous school blazer was stripped from my shoulders and replaced with a leather waistcoat. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
Her smooth black hair fell around her shoulders, and her cream-coloured dress nearly matched her pale complexion.
Often, the muscles used to maintain body posture are affected, namely the muscles in the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle, including the upper trapezius, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, levator scapulae, and quadratus lumborum.
On reaching into my shoulder-bag to locate my wallet my hands chanced to touch the package of shells.
Surgery on his left shoulder involved unjointing it and inserting a pin, leaving him with only partial use of that arm.
Rachel : It's not a purse ! It's a shoulder bag.
The ordinary manipulation of the shoulder can be accomplished with the patient lying down; but if special conditions, such as articular stiffening, call for unusual care or unusual force, it will be found best to treat the shoulder with the patient seated. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
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Responsibilities for protecting Canada's biodiversity fall on the shoulders of both the provincial, territorial and federal governments.
Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
A proper warm-up and stretching of all major muscle groups is necessary, with emphasis towards the entire hip girdle and shoulder girdle , including the pecs.
Women wear colorful gathered skirts with aprons and cloth shawls over their shoulders.
Patients with full range of motion in the early postoperative period may be immobilized for a longer period, because they are less likely to develop a stiff shoulder.
The next day, they got up very early and ate quickly before shouldering their bags for the third time and setting off down the path.
This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves.
The forequarters of the beast, the shoulders and lower legs, the parts worked the hardest, are best for stewing. Times, Sunday Times
The Oscar dress, a chic black number with a rouched-shoulder detail, was created for one of our judges, Livia Firth, who took ethical fashion to the red carpet this year and was featured in Vogue, on TV and in fashion gossip all around the world. Observer Ethical Awards: From Somewhere, Ethical Fashion Award
Another rebounding/defensive big man is all this team needs to seriously compete for a shot at the Finals. chris anderson needs to start playing with a chip on his shoulder, again ... he's too concerned with being "birdman". Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Lanz was struck silent, and then socked Felix in the shoulder.
Despite the high physical demands they placed on their shoulders, 18 of the 21 patients did not have evident loss of clavicular reduction.
Her long blonde hair flowed over her shoulders and the tight black leather outfit showed off her aforementioned attributes quite well.
She was beautiful and wore a fine gold band around her long golden hair which hung loose about her shoulders. The Gods of Asgard
Over my shoulder you see some of those famous high-rise condos that you see along south Florida's coast.
You might as well ask him to tie a yellow cashmere jumper around his shoulders and tell you jokes in his third language, showing his perfect teeth. Times, Sunday Times
Relax your shoulders by taking a deep breath and then focus on letting your shoulders drop and loosen.
The two Siamese battered around her, thudding their sinuous backs against her shoulders. AN OLDER WOMAN
Your arm is outstretched at shoulder height and parallel to the floor. Times, Sunday Times
She was anguishing over it until she felt a hand on her shoulder.
Shoulder injuries brought his career to an undignified end in 2004 after three defeats. The Sun
With fatigue hanging in lead weights from her shoulders, she remembered the telephone number Robert Urquhart had dialled.
But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth inning when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench. Dice-K masterful as Red Sox beat Rays in ALCS opener
The shoulder straps are padded and adjustable and the back of the bag is comfily padded, plus there's a carry handle on top.
Her cheek came to rest against my shoulder.
I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, black couches and a brawny shoulder
Long threads of primrose yellow stuck to the back of my moist neck, my hair thick, lengthy, down around my shoulders.
Police said crooks blocked the slot of cash machines, then noted the pin number by looking over the customer's shoulder.
The design challenges come in giving these bold evergreens enough shoulder room and keeping their flower colors from clashing.
The remains include a complete tibia and shoulder blade, as well as parts of a femur, ribs, vertebrae, collarbone and pelvis, as well as an ankle bone.
‘You don't look so bad yourself’ I said while giving him a playful shove on the shoulder.
He lays a hand gently on my shoulder, stretching his arm further round my back when I do not push him away.
Gannon hurt his shoulder when Ravens defensive tackle Tony Siragusa drove him into the ground.
I felt her dark brown hair brushing the back of my shoulder.
He could feel Tyna lift her head up from her awkward position across her shoulder.
Christ, did ye see 'em scutter like wee mousies wi 'a cat on their tails?" said one patient to another, seemingly oblivious of the nasty powder burn that had singed his left arm from knuckles to shoulder. Dragonfly in Amber
‘Yes that's what I want’ I slammed the door in his face and leaned against it my shoulders heaving, it felt as though I had just run a mile.
Don't do this exercise if you have active tendinitis or bursitis in your shoulders.
Japanese soldiers shouldering their weapons were standing guard in even-numbered ranks outside the gate (my grandmother at the time had studied a little algebra).
It is such a pity that their time and our taxes are being wasted on something which has the majority of our citizens shrugging their shoulder.
Standing and gathering her cloak tightly around her shoulders she turned away from Madam Corbeau's pinched expression and down the lane.
At this point, she felt a quick tap on her shoulder, and turned to face the person.
He caught my interest and I listened closely, my arms clasping tighter around his shoulders.
Aiken, ranked 97th and known as much for his shoulder-length hair as for his swing, has 67s in the first two rounds. Tiger Moving Up The Leaderboard At Dubai
James Baldwin shrugged off a sore right shoulder to toss six strong innings for the White Sox. American League Baseball - White Sox vs. Mariners
Crane pushed his suspenders off his shoulders and grabbed at his pipe and fished his tobacco pouch from his pocket and began to stuff the pipe's bowl.
Her bag was slung over her shoulder.
But the muscles follow immediately in their development and rapidly gain volume and tonicity, filling out the arms, legs, back and shoulders with large masses of firm muscular tissue. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
It was very difficult facing good spin bowlers on a wicket that sometimes bounced up around your shoulder and the next one's skidding straight through. Times, Sunday Times
Gentle traction downward on the head will assist in bringing the anterior shoulder beneath the symphysis.
Teachers of martial art are shouldering the sacred task of and developing it in and universities.
Lucy laughing, smoking, Lucy with Jamie's feather boa round her shoulders, Lucy who had kissed her.
You can cultivate a laconic shrug of the shoulders for use when the conversation turns to your putting, or putting in general.
It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock. The Guests Of Hercules
`Never worked on such a disorganized movie," he flung over his shoulder at the breathless production coordinator. THE SOUND OF MURDER
Miel got up with a start, realizing that she had been resting her head on his shoulder.
The ‘Blue Streak’ was a hinged shoulder holster that allowed one to fire at anyone who grabbed from behind without even removing the gun from the holster.
Carl waited with his blinker on at the shoulder of the road for a break in traffic. The Big Cross
When the people saw her, they all made love to her and she promised and sware and listened and coquetted and passed from market to market, till she saw Ali the Cairene coming, when she went up to him and rubbed her shoulder against him. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
After his cult hit Withnail & I, writer-director Bruce Robinson teamed up again with Richard E Grant for this misconceived satire about an advertising whizz-kid who develops an alter-ego in the form of a talking boil on his shoulder. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
For the daily chores fell mainly on the shoulders of the women: shopping, running around to find particular things.
My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.
“But Gemmy, like every cartoon heroine, was dressed in a soft tunic, a sort of peplos that bared her shoulders and arms and part of her bosom.” callipygian. More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books
One of the striking things that stand out with gymnasts are their amazing arms and shoulders ... even the guy who finished 30th at Nationals was ripped with each and every nuance of the deltoids, triceps and biceps shredded.
When the song is over I reach my hand out and say, ‘Nice set, James,’ touching him on the shoulder.
We specialize in formal suit, water processing casual suit (without shoulder pad or chest liners), 100% or imitation wool simple suit and jacket, cotton-padded clothes.
She wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and peered out at the mountains from the window.
Jill offered her profuse thanks, and allowed Alex to show her around his place, but not without casting a look at me over her shoulder.
She would laugh up at him and pat his shoulder and that shoulder would straighten spryly and he would waggle his head doggishly. Gigolo
The action of adduction along the frontal plane of the body will cause the arm to be moved in a curvilinear arc (the arm being a lever system with the fulcrum at the shoulder end).
He was dressed in the finest of silks, violet in colour, with a dark cape billowing over his shoulders.
I touch her arm, and the next thing I know, she's bawling like a baby into my shoulder.
The researchers rubbed roughly the same number of cowhage spicules the itch-inducing spiky bits of that plant, also known as velvet bean on three locations: the front of the ankle; on the underside of the forearm; and under the shoulder blade on the back. A Dip in the Pool Does an Aging Body Good
Scooping his own jacket up, Shanza gave it a distracted shake and tossed it over his shoulders in a dazed stupor.
This same publishing industry has turned a cold shoulder to other, less marketable writers.
Yet now and then you feel the tug, standing in front of a full-length mirror, fantasizing about cannonball shoulders and chiseled biceps.
He felt the pain in the shoulder, where the arrow had hit him, and he damned his ship, his fate, the entire curse of his life.
To all appearances he is an alpha-male professional in a bespoke suit, but the hang of his shoulders speaks of a disappointed man.
On one shoulder was fixed the painted figure of an owl; and he bore in the right hand his pastoral staff, and in the left a small mirror having a handle to it, thus resembling a celebrated jester, whose adventures, translated into English, were whilom extremely popular, and which may still be procured in black letter, for about one sterling pound per leaf. The Abbot
‘We're just joshing Shane a bit,’ Everett said, putting an arm around Angel's shoulders.
I made out an elderly lady, propped up, silvery hair rippling across her shoulders.
Tailored in a 6.7 oz. ringspun cotton, this shirt has a three-button placket, a rib knit collar, a tail back, banded sleeves, side vents, wood tone buttons, and taped neck and shoulders.
She rocked the gleaming harp towards her, nestling it into its accustomed spot on her right shoulder.
It was about big money and big shoulder pads. Times, Sunday Times
Muscle bulk, tone and strength were normal, but she displayed decreased range of motion in internal and external rotation, flexion and extension of both shoulders.
She stayed in one place, her feet about as far apart as her shoulders, and really only her legs moved.
He felt a thump on his shoulder.
My problem with the cardinal’s statements is that he is taking this idea of materialism and laying it squarely on Darwin’s shoulders, essentially saying that evolution and materialism are equivalent: “What I call evolutionism is an ideological view that says evolution can explain everything in the whole development of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony” Vienna cardinal draws lines in Intelligent Design row - The Panda's Thumb
Bend arm slowly upwards so your hand is touching your shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
Round her, and for a mile away, they fought like rams and they fought like dogs and they fought like tigers, and over the roaring siren sounds of the fight the gulls flew like the fume of it, screaming and swooping and circling in spirals, and through everything like the continuous thud-thud of a propeller came the dunch of tons of flesh meeting tons of flesh head on, shoulder on, or side on. The Beach of Dreams
We're putting too much responsibility on young shoulders these days.
In spite of firm resolution, his shoulders drooped again, almost of their own accord.
A veil, scarf, or kerchief may be suspended from the head and attached there with a headband or hairpins, or it may variably wrap the head, neck, and shoulders.
As local police recently learned, it is also a convenient place to dump a victim, with its shoulder-high brush. New Bones in Killing Probe
Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground. Bird Cloud
All I can say is that my business partners have a sore shoulder, a screwy leg, a skin infection; and I am nursing a bung knee.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed a consecutive series of 202 shoulders that had undergone magnetic resonance arthrography between 2004 and 2005.
Buks yomped ahead across the helideck and tossed the words back over his shoulder. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
At the song's end, he casually tosses his guitar over his shoulder and into the drum kit.
I couldn't hold in my chuckles of laughter and neither, it seemed, could Derek as I saw his shoulders shake.
Ain 'no trouble hyeh," the boatman said, shrugging his shoulders, The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
A specialist in Frankfurt has prepared a shoulder brace for Stoner to wear to protect his collarbone.
There were people far more able to get close and offer the comfort of an arm around the shoulder. Christianity Today
Before him, Karl Yundt remained standing, one wing of his faded greenish havelock thrown back cavalierly over his shoulder. The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale
For in any situation of war or conflict, women shoulder the greatest burden.

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