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How to use shin in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun, verb

Shin means the front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia. Example: “Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.”

Examples of shin by meaning

nounThe front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

  • Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.

verbTo climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs...

  • to shin up a mast
  • "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33

More sentences with shin

  • Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.From the entry corner
  • They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.From the entry condition
  • I barked my shins climbing the fence.From the entry bark
  • We had to relocate the magazine rack because we bruised our shins on it too frequently when it was near the door.From the entry relocate
  • Shins coated in mud, the sivathere strides out onto more solid ground, towards the shade to browse.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 28. From the entry sivathere
  • I fall onto the table and smack a set of supply drawers with my shin.2021, Andy Weir, chapter 1, in Project Hail Mary: A Novel, Ballantine Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry motherfluffer
  • A matted beard tingled from his shin and grapevined all over the exposed parts of his body.2017, Aben Kandel, City for Conquest. From the entry grapevine
  • Pulling away, Brennan felt his shin swack against Glass's shin, but Glass kept moving.1987, Joseph Monninger, Second Season, page 179. From the entry swack
  • There was a satisfactory 'klonk' as his heel caught his guard's shin.1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 61. From the entry klonk
  • Tarnally dog gone my shins if this beent the bestest puttiest longbreak yet.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry bestest
  • The loss from "shin plasters," however, was small compared with the loss from the worthless "wildcat currency."1914, Frederick Lyman Hitchcock, History of Scranton and Its People - Volume 1, page 408. From the entry wildcat currency
  • Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.8 May 2019, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian. From the entry hack
  • There was a hole the size of a ten-rappen coin on her right shin and a run laddering after it.2015, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau, Random House, page 112. From the entry rappen
  • I drove my sneaker into her shin.2008, Lauren Myracle, Thirteen, New York, N.Y.: Dutton Children's Books, →ISBN. From the entry uptalk
  • Sharp shinned and Cooper's hawks dash through the woods after small birds, steering between tangled limbs with their rudder -like tails.1946, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina, N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, page 28. From the entry midair
  • While groping her way about, Eve barked her shins against pieces of furniture that seemed to be lying topsy-turvily about.1940, Emma Orczy, chapter 14, in Mam’zelle Guillotine, London: Hodder & Stoughton. From the entry topsy-turvily
  • Once I had to grit my teeth against skeeving out when Mai's carpet of blue and silver ferret-looking creatures brushed my shins.2018, Keith Melton, The Zero Dog War, →ISBN. From the entry skeeve out
  • This gesture symbolizes the Hebrew letter shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai; in the Jewish Qabala, shin also represents eternal Spirit.1995-10, Leonard Nimoy, “Vulcanalia or The Vulcan Grows Up”, in I Am Spock, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, pages 67–68. From the entry Vulcan salute
  • The hot-and-cold-water treatment Sweetie referred to is called kneipping: you put your feet or your wrists or your shins in water to force your circulation to speed up.2009 March 13, Janine Di Giovanni, “The Road to Wellville”, in New York Times. From the entry kneipping
  • Divine, shin up them cliffs back o' the cove an' search fer water an' a site fer camp—the rest o' us'll have our hands full with the salvage.”1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October…. From the entry ourn
  • There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.2009 August 13, Celean Jacobson, “Cultural heart of Jo'burg”, in Toronto Star. From the entry unbleached

Meaning of shin

  1. noun The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
  2. noun A fishplate for a railway.
  3. verb To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

Full definition of shin

Questions about shin in a sentence

How do you use shin in a sentence?
Shin is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.”
What is a short sentence with shin?
“to shin up a mast”
What does shin mean?
Shin means the front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

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