Sentence examples for ankles from inspiring English sources

The word "ankles" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the part of the body below the calf and above the foot. Example: She crossed her ankles as she watched the sunset from the beach.

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Larry Siems: how the manuscript became a book By now the chains on my ankles were cutting off the blood to my feet.

Friends and colleagues would assume I was sulking – fretful about the budget, the traffic or the possibility that David Beckham would end up trotting around a football pitch for one last medley of complaints to the referee, misplaced passes and light tapping of the ankles of agile opponents as they raced by our national icon.

I get up and go to the loo, both ankles and one knee aching already… Awesome, guys!

Trousers I'd owned for years would fall, still fastened, to my ankles.

Church's left wrist was cuffed to a bar behind a bench in windowless cinderblock cell, with his ankles cuffed together.

Should men's ankles be on show again this summer?

He said that he was suspended by his ankles and subjected to electric shocks to his genitals and suffocation by plastic bags.

At the end there would be a pile of naked corpses and Piechowski would take the ankles, while another man held the arms, and throw them on to carts, to transport them to the crematorium.

Of 34 prisoners profiled, 29 made credible allegations of torture and ill treatment, including beatings, electric shocks, and hanging from wrists and ankles.

It was there that Daynes used duct tape to bind his young victim by his wrists and ankles before knifing him in the throat, causing him to die within seconds.

In another, a woman appeared injured and bound by her wrists and ankles.

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