shoulder
lift onto one's shoulders
How often you will meet it
Rank 854 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,434 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- lift onto one's shoulders
- push with the shoulders He shouldered his way into the crowd
- carry a burden, either real or metaphoric shoulder the burden
noun
- the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula also: shoulder joint, articulatio humeri
- the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road also: berm the car pulled off onto the shoulder
shoulder in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He went slower, glancing restlessly over his shoulder.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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The boy dug Mavis sharply in the shoulder.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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With her hand on the handle, she turned her head over her shoulder, and beckoned to me.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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It was so dark under the spruces that he could barely see the shape of her head beside his shoulder.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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The dominating, unhurried note rang, echoed, and began to die away as they saw Brant's hand fall on Bob Floyd's shoulder.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1