Sentence examples for shin against from inspiring English sources

Vonn tumbled over the front of her skis, probably smashing her shin against the top of her boot.

Fellaini injured a shin against the Gunners and the manager, David Moyes, will not risk either player if there is any doubt.

Hurst replaced Greaves in the England team in 1966 after he injured a shin against France during the group stages.

I kicked, trying to mimic the natural grace and elegance with which Phol moved about the ring, wincing at the slam of my shin against him every time.

This thesis, simple and majestic, has banged its shins against reality; Kaplan's book is the howl.

Frank, a more secular creature and a more diffident fellow, lives in the confines of his own first-person narration — ruminating, hesitating, doubting and continually banging his shins against the puzzling, intractable mundane.

"That annoying buzzer goes off and everybody runs up to put their shins against that metal carousel rim and forms that human wall of entitlement, with people who were not so fast trying to peek through the wall and jockey for position," he said.

After a couple hours of skirting the swamp's western edge, we decided to head eastward into the Great Swamp by making our way across an open expanse of flooded grassy swale, which was covered in a crust of ice that struck our legs with every step as if we were constantly hitting our shins against a coffee table for an hour.

I adopted to it early, became expert in its use, and realised that it was (and still is) the future of image making, but like many photographers my age, I learned the hard way - a baptism by stop-bath (you've simply not lived until you've barked your shins against the furniture, while stumbling blindly around a darkened room after inadvertently getting acetic acid in your eye).

On the slopes, press your shins against your boots.

Every time he took a left bend, his right shin was rammed against a burning-hot tube on the frame near the exhaust.