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“In just two games, I got hit in the face, groin, shin, foot, hand and head,” he says, counting up his bruises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

You have soccer cranks who didn’t care about the sport 24 hours ago ready to march in the streets wearing shin guards and a full red-striped Waldo kit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

But the thigh is not the concern this week, with sources indicating that Raducanu has a shin problem.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Chole Baugh and her boyfriend, Joe Ford, are working on the left shin of the Giant.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

There was general merriment over this, and the strapping boy who had played the queen flushed and kicked the shin of the laughing youth next to him.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Each participant must wear trousers, with straw available for them to create a layer of padding on their shins.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

There was also the afternoon I took a shortcut through some trees and got stuck in snow up to my shins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 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

But he proves a skilled physical comic, tussling with his boots or recoiling from a kick in the shins from Lucky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

It seemed she had barely closed her eyes when she felt Poppy’s hard little heels banging against her shins.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

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

The prairie falcon and the sharp- shinned hawk were there, too.

From "Frightful's 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

And Bud was shinning down over the edge clawing tightly the stone points of vantage.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter