How to Use shin in a Sentence

shin

noun
  • At one point, the man kicked Wilcox in the shin, Wilcox said.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Turn the feet outwards and rest the front of your shins down onto the mat.
    Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • That's 1 rep. 3 Plank How to: Start on all fours with shins and palms flat on mat.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Flexing the foot brings the toes closer to you and toward your shin.
    Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 9 June 2022
  • How to Do It: Step inside the trap bar, aligning your shins with the center of the bar.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The Michelle Suede Classic Boot has a tall shaft to keep your shins and ankles cozy.
    Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
  • How to: Start in a kneeling position, with shins flat on the ground.
    Madeline Howard, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Fenton also wrote Rodriguez kicked the reporter in the shins on the street.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • That's a nondrying, yellow oil rendered from cow legs — the shin and foot bones but not the hooves.
    Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Feet bones are for kicking and shins are for being kicked.
    Mia Mercado, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Like a wolf, like a dog getting ready to sink its teeth into her shin.
    Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • India stayed healthy until the Field of Dreams Game in August, when he was hit by a pitch in the shin.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Your foot and ankle will follow the swivel of your shin.
    Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • To stabilize his foot, he had been fitted for a brace that ran up the length of his shin.
    Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2021
  • The framed nylons ad, in which a model rolled the shadow of a stocking up her shin.
    Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Have your partner place their hands on the floor outside of your legs and one shin at a time into your hands.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
  • This leads Trixie to march into Lucifer's penthouse and kick him in the shin.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 May 2021
  • Now Kauffman has 24 tattoos, from a large flower on her palm to a spiky Garfield flail on her shin.
    Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • Another 16-year-old girl was shot in the shin, and a 17-year-old boy was hit in his buttocks, police said.
    NBC News, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Then in the top of the third inning, Greene took a comebacker off his shin and eventually left the game.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2023
  • When your knees are rotated all the way to the right, lift your left hand off the ground and use your right hand to press up onto the outside of your shins.
    Greg Presto, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Krivonishchenko had blackened fingers and third-degree burns on a shin and a foot.
    Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • Cade Cunningham is out for the season with a fractured shin.
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The bottom portion had a see-through netted skirt, which hit at the shins and had a high-slit that started at the top of Heidi's left thigh.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2023
  • Below, 26 shin-grazing leather midi skirts that get the street style seal of approval.
    Laura Jackson, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The other new species left behind a shin bone that indicates the dinosaur was about 15 feet long.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Robots are learning how not to fall over after stepping on your foot and kicking you in the shin.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Your shins should be close to or actually touching the bar.
    Men's Health, 11 July 2023
  • But Suede Boot Man easily palms the top of his Pankio, which extends not halfway up his shin.
    Bon Appétit, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The light, but noticeable, padding on the shins helps protect them from the discomfort of tight ski boots.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023

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