Example sentences for: shouldered

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

  • Some years ago I shouldered the rewarding (and not very exacting) task of editing some articles by Bernard Lewis, distinguished scholar of the Arab world.

  • He has never shouldered blame for those deceptions.

  • This interpretation of culture, is admittedly, of decreasing importance to an increasing proportion of the population, who place rock 'n' roll stars on the same scale of artistic accomplishment as Milton, Rembrandt, Mozart, Gershwin, Hemingway, et al.; because the last do not speak to them, they are peremptorily shouldered out of consideration.

  • In that book, Hochschild explored the dilemmas faced by two-career marriages, in which, she found, women still shouldered the bulk of the child care and housework.

  • Yet he has never shouldered responsibility for the lies Clinton told then.


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