shin
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With the final ball of the first over, Archer pinned New Zealand captain Tom Latham on the shin and barely turned around to appeal.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
British number one Emma Raducanu, seeded 30th, is set to start against Croatia's Antonia Ruzic, but there are concerns over her fitness after she did not practise on Thursday because of a shin injury.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
During these sessions, participants walked on a treadmill while wearing a device on the shin that provided vibration feedback.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
Work paused frequently as workers uncovered thousands of fossils, including a 2-foot bison horn and camel shin bone, dating back to the Ice Age.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
My left shin looked no bigger than the bones inside it.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
In the remote Ocotillo washes, where the scrubs claw at people’s shins, he recently found what he believes to be the remains of a human finger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
Gilgeous-Alexander was sidelined by a sprained ankle while Holmgren was nursing sore shins, both joining Isaiah Hartenstein and Jaylin Williams on OKC's injured list.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
That helped later in life when the professional-sports business dealt him the financial equivalent of a kick in the shins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
He picked up the mount after his original Derby horse, Reflected Glory, couldn’t make the race because of sore shins.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
In the scabs of the sores on Chacko’s shins that he constantly worried.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
And the 37-year-old settled the game when he shinned Lamine Yamal's header across goal and past his own keeper.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
But a teenager who offered only his first name, Oleksandr, had shinned up the supporting pole and was tearing the sign to pieces.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
Clucas' effort took a deflection off the boot of Moussa Sissoko and flew into the corner, while Tymon shinned a first-time cross over Elliot's head.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2021
Out went Geoff Cameron, whose shinned clearance had gifted Nani the opening goal against Portugal, and whose drop in concentration was a contributing factor, but certainly not the sole cause, in the second.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2014
“Just a few weeks ago two men offered my son, Eric, a couple of hundred dollars to locate a sharp- shinned hawk nest for them.”
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
As it was, it took two set-pieces break down the visitors, with Hofmann shinning a volley through a crowded penalty area after the initial ball in was not cleared.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
"All love on my end shawty, Keep shinning!"
From Fox News ● Feb. 22, 2021
Lee chronicled the innocence and tragedy of her childhood in the classic novel, shinning a light on the Jim Crow-era South as well as injustice in a small Alabama town.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2019
I experienced Ustvolskaya’s magnificent chords and resonances as heat and light, while that shinning orb overhead became a giant gong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
Ten minutes of thus shinning passed without event.
From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
