Sentence examples for shinny from inspiring English sources
The word "shinny" is correct in certain contexts
It is often used to describe something that is shiny or to refer to a type of informal game played on ice. Example: "The sun made the lake shinny as we skated across its surface."
verb
To climb in an awkward manner.
They also went into the jungle with a guide to see how the fruit was harvested, and watched the river people shinny up the palms and bring down the seed clusters.
There were radio reports — all of them encrypted to keep smugglers from listening in — of people on the Mexican side climbing up the fence and peering over, only to shinny back down when they spotted the authorities.
In this version, which opens April 25 at the Music Box Theater, the stage transforms into a circus big top, and while singing and dancing Mr. Thomas must shinny up and down poles and hurl himself from considerable heights into the arms of the chorus.
For the opening act of the five-game Christmas re-entry that Commissioner David Stern was going to deliver if he had to personally shinny down every chimney in North America, Knicks-Celtics was a natural.
Our crew members were from this rural landscape, and they had taught our hosts how to shinny up a coconut tree and navigate by the stars.
The goalie was Elyssa Kaplan, a teenage Islanders fan from Dix Hills who read about the game of shinny on Facebook and asked her father for a ride to Massapequa.
These and other transformations license a range of visual gags that put the sly into silly, like the sight of Puss awkwardly shinnying down a rope on his claws, or of Cookie the gingerbread man engaged in gladiatorial combat with a bunch of animal biscuits.
They were hard workers, those Vietnamese women picking little bananas, shinnying up palm trees for coconuts.
He watched "The Poseidon Adventure" dozens of times, always amazed by the kid who shinnies up the Christmas tree: "I remember thinking, That's the coolest thing ever, the kid taking this chance".
He can break down an illegally locked door or gingerly reposition a ruffled curtain and devotional votives after shinnying out a tenant's eighth-floor window to check a leak.
Some looked like tightrope walkers, delicately balancing on horizontal poles in bare feet; others could be seen shinnying up vertical poles like monkeys, securing intersections with colored nylon ropes; and still others were building teepeelike configurations on the ground.
