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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

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

As I crept nearer, he leaned into my shin for comfort.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

Lucy Daramola told BBC London she was knocked unconscious and hospitalised after cutting her shins getting on the train in July 2022.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024

I give my shins one last desperate scratch, tie my shoes, and follow.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

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

“See, it’s not difficult,” Mr. Violini, a restoration specialist at the Vatican Museums, said as he slowly shinned up the frescoed stairwell leading up to a once-private papal chapel in Rome.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2019

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

Ten minutes of thus shinning passed without event.

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez