Example sentences for: wrist

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

  • One creative sign: Daniel Ortega is identified by a tap on the wrist, a mockery of the ex-president's gauche Rolex.

  • On Tuesday, in Texas, after a public display of affection, one of them playfully grabbed the other by the wrist and shouted, "Run!

  • New York 's Stevens turns up the volume on the Tiepolo hype: Tiepolo "paints as a stylish swordsman might kill, with a flashing wrist; he gives us flourishes, a kind of whistling-through-the-air bravura, as if to say, 'Of course!

  • Even this wrist slap only happened after it came out that Stokes had had at least nine moving violations since 1991--three of them last year.

  • Coming into the room full of friends, Bill Harris announced Hey, I'm really not late, look, he shoved up his sleeve to show them his wrist watch and then, in surprise he shouted, Oh, damn, I've broken my crotch whistle.


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