shoulder
Example Sentences
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As the Slayer’s Watcher, Giles keeps Buffy battle ready, advises her and occasionally gives her a fatherly shoulder to cry on.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026
A Pasadena police officer shot and wounded a colleague in the shoulder inside the department’s parking garage last September during an incident the police chief described as “unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
“They were shoulder to shoulder, bellies to backs,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Stokes made his first Test century in two years against India at Old Trafford last summer, only to then miss the final Test because of a shoulder injury.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
He most certainly wouldn’t have touched Nine’s shoulder had he known, for that memory made him feel even worse than he already had.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing shoulder
Lesson 1
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 5
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