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Example sentences for: shin
How can you use “shin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It engages in foreign espionage and covert action . (Another agency, Shin Bet, is in charge of domestic intelligence-gathering and security.)
In an editorial, it called for a root-and-branch restructuring of Israel's three intelligence services--Mossad, Shin Bet, and Military Intelligence--and the appointment of a prime-ministerial intelligence adviser to coordinate their work.
After Yasser Arafat's return from exile in 1994, it has spent more resources tracking potential terrorists within the West Bank and Gaza, a responsibility of Shin Bet rather than Mossad.
With few exceptions, they appear to be phrases ( bridging loan, wide open, Hyde Park railings ), adages or proverbs ( Don't be after breaking your shin on a stool that is not in your way, When the wheat lies long in bed, it rises with a heavy head, The water that comes from the same spring cannot be both fresh and salt, Better feed five drones than starve one bee ), and, occasionally, individual words ( beeswax business, grape-vine, stagnant ).
French names for foods are common: poulet frit fried chicken Kentucky; moules mussels; frites French fries; poutine French fries with curd cheese and gravy (named after a Colonel Poutine who was in charge of provisions at the Siege of Quebec in 1749; at the end, the only stores remaining were potatoes, cheese, and chicken stock; local folk etymology has it from putain, putanesca ); aubergine eggplant (the usual word in Britain); jarret de boeuf shin of beef; caribou a fortified sweet wine, etc.
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