shin
Example Sentences
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It is the kind of place where you can lose an hour just looking at shin guards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
In slalom, racers typically knock down gates with their arms or shins, which are protected by plastic shin guards.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
Researchers sampled a tibia, or shin bone, which is not commonly used for ancient DNA studies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026
The exasperation over a lost water bottle, the frustration of mismatched shin guards, the stress of ticking off a mental check-list when rushing out the door—I loved how ordinary these problems felt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025
Where there should be nothing, a table leg gouges her shin.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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