Sentence examples for shin up from inspiring English sources
His likable, everyman shtick is enabling him to shin up the showbiz ladder with impressive speed.
The object of the 'climb' was to shin up to the top of your rope.
In summer, scarlet runners and peas shin up sturdy hazel poles.
Today, he's wearing two, and looks about as relaxed as a man about to shin up the scaffold.
But none of us was especially inclined to shin up a baobab and stick our hands into a wild bees' nest.
When encountering a telegraph line, troopers would shin up the poles and pull down the wire, to which Ellsworth would attach his pocket device.
He shins up the building and crawls inside.
Then he shinned up a drainpipe to get into the Palace.
In silence, he shins up a neem tree near the hut, breaks a twig from it, and slithers down again.
He's just another taciturn tough with an inexpressive scowl, although he's rather convincing shinning up buildings like Peter Parker.
Paddling out to an overhanging willow, they each shinned up a whippy branch with squirrel-like agility.
