Sentence examples for could shoulder from inspiring English sources

Only a very tall woman could shoulder such a wingspan.

But Little Nell, being fiction, could shoulder the burden of allegory; Bridgman, being fact, could not.

Perhaps no one could shoulder the scrutiny that Mr. Assange has lived through, but he does not play the game of making nice with the media.

The idea that companies and shareholders could shoulder all the burden of closing the deficit in the timetable Mr McDonnell now seems to want to keep looks unrealistic.

Seniors, Ms. Sawhill suggests, could shoulder more costs so that more of the money from working Americans could be devoted to the young.

Any decent revolution needs its leaders to surface in times of doubt, and for Columbus, there's only one hero who could shoulder that burden.

After a knee injury ended his own running, in his 60s, Mr. Chinmoy began lifting weights and within several years could shoulder-press more than 7,000 pounds on a special lifting apparatus.

I could not shoulder her grief, but I could feel it.

Insurers claimed that they could not shoulder the risk of providing "terrorism insurance" without government assistance.

People forget, after Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, everyone said we were in trouble, that this guy named Michael Jordan couldn't shoulder the burden.

I'm getting to it now because I couldn't shoulder the guilt — my hard-to-please wife is among its importuning admirers — for another day.