Example sentences for: ankles

How can you use “ankles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This is English with its sleeves rolled right down around its ankles.

  • Actually, he veers drunkenly between these two poles, now mocking Hillary for thick ankles, dowdy outfits, and résumé padding, now excusing her involvement in Travelgate and Whitewater.

  • I'm sure we all did the best we could, although many participants, absorbed with the idea of burning heretics, seem to have confused the C of E with the RC, so let's all reread Barchester Towers and study up on the Gordon riots, with our trousers down around our ankles.

  • Unfortunately, Gore's campaign has now entered a third, much more aggressive phase, in which he nips too eagerly at Bradley's ankles and attempts to bury his rival under a mountain of inconsistent and often spurious charges.

  • More likely they would invent a bunch of rules for keeping the players from spraining their ankles or getting their toes cut by pieces of glass hidden in the sand or contracting tetanus from rusty nails stuck in driftwood.


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