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The Five-Pocket Tote has classic denim details such as belt loops, shank buttons and bar tack stitching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

In its more standardized form across the journalism industry, this kind of ethical nihilism has been a rusty shank to the gut of consumer advocacy journalists the last few years.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

A wild drive on the seventh and a shank out of a bunker at the next opened up the tournament.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

The dissection eventually led her to conclude that if you removed both the heel and the hard inner shank of a heeled shoe, it could stand flat on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

He picked up the chisel again and looked down at it on his lap, his fingers squeezed white around the shank as he waited for the answer.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

There was further discussion that the group "ain't fighting small shanks".

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Gremolata is traditionally used to garnish Ossobuco alla Milanese — veal shanks braised with vegetables, white wine, and broth — grilled fish or other choices of protein.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023

Twenty-five of the nails were headless and deliberately bent at right angles; the others were complete roundheaded nails with the shanks twisted multiple times.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

His daemon slithered lethargically off his lap as the Professor beat his fists against his shanks.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

If not, it will be the biggest miss since Diana Ross shanked her try from the penalty spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

They’d responded to the opening Hawkeye score with a sloppy three-and-out series, followed by a shanked punt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

Murley fluffed another high ball, Harry Randall shanked a box-kick straight up in the air and error compounded error.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025

The Canadian claimed the ball had hit the frame of Draper's racket and then the floor on match point, saying his opponent "shanked it on the floor", though the umpire disagreed.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024

I ain't one o' them skinny shanked saps, with a chest 'ollered out, and a 'ump, Wot do records on roads for the 'onour, and faint or go slap off their chump.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various

He is more likely to expire on the back nine of a golf course after shanking a par 5 off the tee than any man I’ve ever known.

From Salon ● May 15, 2025

He told reporters on Thursday that he had been suffering with back spasms along with soreness in his surgically repaired leg after uncharacteristically shanking an approach on the 18th.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024

While the rust showed, he also produced some of his vintage shotmaking, especially after shanking his approach on 18.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Whether improperly closing a door or shanking a kick in soccer, our brains tell us when we've made a mistake because these sounds differ from what we expect to hear.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2023

The next process is that of shanking, or attaching small metal loops, by which they are fastened to garments.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 by Charles Peters