Get to know Shoulders better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Shoulders meaning
- plural of shoulder
- The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back.
- Capacity for bearing a task or blame.
Using Shoulders
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of shoulder | The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back. | Capacity for bearing a task or blame.
- In the example corpus, shoulders often appears in combinations such as: his shoulders, shoulders and, the shoulders.
Context around Shoulders
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shoulders
- In this selection, "shoulders" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, red, inside, outside, helping, down and build stand out and add context to how "shoulders" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the shoulders stayed down and basses have shoulders carved with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shoulders" sits close to words such as apartments, closures and jumping, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shoulders
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And the shoulders stayed down all day. (7 words)
Pull the shoulders back and down, do not shrug the shoulders up. (12 words)
But red-shoulders build in trees in mature forests, red-shoulders in open woodlands. (14 words)
Alisson told The Telegraph: "This is a lot of responsibility over your shoulders and he came here with the responsibility to be the replacement for De Gea, who maybe was not in the best shape of his career, but he was still delivering. (43 words)
And though the Tigers remain the top team in our preseason projections, several other programs — some perennial powers, some new faces and some programs with chips on their shoulders — look like they could be holding the trophy in Cleveland in April. (41 words)
A count may be started at any time that a wrestler's shoulders are down (both shoulders touching the mat), back-first and any part of the opponent's body is lying over the wrestler. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
It will include 12-foot-wide multi-use paths on the inside shoulders of Mount Vernon Highway and Johnson Ferry Road and 6-foot-wide sidewalks on the outside shoulders.
These exercises stretch the legs, lengthen the back and open the shoulders, helping to draw the shoulders back and decompress the spine.
Pull the shoulders back and down, do not shrug the shoulders up.
They showed a freeze-frame of Rousey’s shoulders down and did not draw attention to the fact that her shoulders were up for the first count.
We were lifted up on the shoulders of giants and now in the early winter of our years we find those same shoulders have been shattered and cast aside by pygmies.
But red-shoulders build in trees in mature forests, red-shoulders in open woodlands.
A count may be started at any time that a wrestler's shoulders are down (both shoulders touching the mat), back-first and any part of the opponent's body is lying over the wrestler.
Examples of the premonitory urge are the feeling of having something in one's throat, or a localized discomfort in the shoulders, leading to the need to clear one's throat or shrug the shoulders.
In addition, while the violin has bulging shoulders, most double basses have shoulders carved with a more acute slope, like members of the viol family.
This stance is a key reason for the bass's sloped shoulders, which mark it apart from the other members of the violin family—the narrower shoulders facilitate playing the strings in their higher registers.
After teaming up with Braun Strowman and Ricochet in a victorious effort, Rhodes was photographed celebrating by parading the 350-pound Strowman around on his shoulders, not looking like he was even breaking a sweat.
A Hampshire Police spokesman said: “They were described as being a white man, with broad shoulders.
Alisson told The Telegraph: "This is a lot of responsibility over your shoulders and he came here with the responsibility to be the replacement for De Gea, who maybe was not in the best shape of his career, but he was still delivering.
A lot is resting on the shoulders of the big technology stocks, with two weeks to go until October options expiration.
A lot of pressure rides on the shoulders of and the Denver Broncos as the regular season inches closer and closer.
And rather than a pill, it is a gel — which has a similar consistency to hand sanitiser, dries quickly and is odourless — that men rub onto their shoulders, chest and upper arms once a day.
And the shoulders stayed down all day.
And this time round they look like comfortable rubbing shoulders with Europe's elite despite their lack of experience in the Champions League.
And though the Tigers remain the top team in our preseason projections, several other programs — some perennial powers, some new faces and some programs with chips on their shoulders — look like they could be holding the trophy in Cleveland in April.
An effective manager should be able to manage work without looking over their employees’ shoulders in a physical space.
Common combinations with shoulders
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his shoulders 35×
- shoulders and 34×
- the shoulders 28×
- her shoulders 27×
- shoulders with 19×
- their shoulders 18×
- and shoulders 17×
- shoulders of 15×
- your shoulders 9×
- my shoulders 8×