shoulder
Example Sentences
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At this week’s trial, Customs and Border Protection officer Joseph Zuraw said Judge Dugan jerked her thumb over her shoulder and told the agents to “get out.”
He may let a wheel go onto the shoulder from time to time, but he swings back on the road quickly and keeps the acoustic story going with both hands on the wheel.
Jack Hibbert - a beat cop just four months into the job - was hit in both the head and the shoulder but continued to help festival attendees until he physically couldn't, his family said.
From BBC
Taxpayers ultimately shouldered the price, paying over $130 billion, plus hundreds of billions in interest payments over decades, according to the Government Accountability Office.
From Barron's
Maybe it was the “devastating” news from earlier in the day, as USC announced that point guard Rodney Rice would undergo shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the season.
From Los Angeles Times
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