forearm
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Then, in 1814, a musket ball smashed his left forearm.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
In November 2025, Beatriz Ziegenfus told authorities that she was passing the dog and his owner when it lunged at her and bit her on her right forearm, knocking her down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Her forearm tattoo comprises geometric shapes symbolising different members and aspects of her family.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Another man had a shallot tattooed on his forearm, suggesting either a career behind the line or an allium devotion I could not hope to match.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Nan nodded and patted him on the forearm.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Use a spray bottle, for example, to mist water directly onto a person’s face, neck and forearms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The company has had issues designing its robots’ hands and forearms, as well as sourcing parts.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
The hands are driven by motors that are packed into forearms the size of coffee cans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
Breaking his fall with two hands on the turf, cuffs of his baggy blue keeper's jersey halfway up his forearms and long black curls flowing behind him, Higuita immediately burst into his iconic grin.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025
A fur of red dust gathered on the curly hairs of his forearms, and rivulets of perspiration ran down his temples.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
But to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
The emotional charge of seeing their top scorer felled by a forearmed shot behind the action from their opponent’s star defenseman seemed to catapult the already surging Kraken to an entirely different level of play.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
If to be forewarned is to be forearmed, then the country, and D.C., should be on notice about what lies ahead unless steps are taken now to deal with potential dangers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
When it comes to tick-borne illness, forewarned is forearmed.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 7, 2022
These unexpected jolts from Larsen were difficult to prepare for, but Bobby’s continuous study of the old masters left him relatively forearmed.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2011
One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
