Example sentences for: shoulder

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

  • hard shoulder The raised roughly surfaced strip running along the edge of a motorway, which is used for emergency stops.

  • Africana is as least as good as the two or three other encyclopedias of black history and culture that sit in storage while I wait for my shoulder to heal enough so I can build bookshelves.

  • We were easy prey for the safety crusaders who argued in the 1970s and '80s that drivers and their passengers could not be expected to buckle their seat belts and shoulder belts, and that the recalcitrant car companies should be required to install "passive restraints."

  • A scaffold was built so that a rifleman— who fired a single-shot, muzzle-loading shoulder weapon—could step up and shoot over the top of the trench.

  • I felt a hand on my shoulder.


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