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Recent Examples of shin
Noun
In the photo, Ventura is wearing a shorter dress, and a bruise could be seen on her right shin. Alice Gainer, CBS News, 14 May 2025 Try to keep your shins vertical and focus on keeping your knees in line with your toes. Hilary Achauer, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
This length is most often used by mountaineers due to the use of taller boots that can rub against your calves and shins more dramatically. Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024 Jump your feet forward so your knees are below your hips, shins off the floor. Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 7 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for shin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shin
Noun
  • With two bullets in the thighs, and another bullet in his arm, one young man was screaming in pain.
    Anas Baba, NPR, 6 July 2025
  • The bullet hit that victim in her left thigh, the bullet exiting then lodging in her right thigh.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • In particular, Jess Carter was skinned three times by Delpinhe Cascarino in the first half — two warning signs, and then the assist for Marie-Antoinette Katoto’s opener.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 July 2025
  • It is packed with 12 actives including a Suprême Skin Bio Complex (to boost skin renewal), which brightens, de-puffs, smoothens and firms skin around the eye area.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Both arrived to Tanganyika Wildlife Park in 2014 and have had five calves together, including the latest addition.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 12 July 2025
  • Senga, who missed the entirety of the 2024 season outside of a few innings with a shoulder injury and a calf strain, was on track for another All-Star appearance before he was injured trying to cover first base.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights. Click.
    The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The slippery custom began a half-century ago merely as a means to dissuade drunken daredevils from attempting to shinny up the poles in order to mingle with paying guests.
    DOUG MACCASH | Staff writer, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2021
Noun
  • Extending the emphasis on nature, a ring with a 6.02 carat Brazilian aquamarine, resting on a shank embellished with two Paraiba tourmalines and diamond petals to mimic a rose, joins the new line.
    India Brown, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • While classics like Rio’s fajitas remain on the menu, executive chef Jesus Martinez has added more elevated, traditional Mexican dishes like a roasted pork shank birria and striped bass veracruzana.
    Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 27 June 2025

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“Shin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shin. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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