Example sentences for: wrists

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

  • Shroud tidbit: The person wrapped in the shroud was crucified through the wrists (consistent with Roman practice), not through the hands.

  • The great ones have almost no movement in their arms, wrists, and hands other than the gentlest of pendulum swings.

  • The suicides tend to be respectables who've never previously been in any kind of trouble and are desperate to escape the impending humiliation, like the former Air Force pilot in Maine who asphyxiated himself, the University of Connecticut microbiologist who slashed his wrists, or the Colorado computer consultant who shot himself in the head.

  • He has a heart attack in 1968, leaves his wife in 1969, and on Feb. 25, 1970, slits his wrists and dies on the studio floor.

  • If you've ever spent an evening plunging your wrists into ice water, you are an easy mark for devices that promise to relieve carpal tunnel syndrome.


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