How to use "shoulder" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "shoulder" in popular movie and book plots

  • Garcia is wounded in the shoulder by Bernal's shotgun, but Keyes manages to track them down and kills Bernal with a pistol shot.  - Tourist Season (novel)
  • Ridley becomes enraged at Damodar and attacks him, but Damodar disarms him and stabs him in the left shoulder with his own sword.  - Dungeons & Dragons (film)
  • Widower Anthony Morton "Tony" Micelli is a former second baseman for the st Louis Cardinals who was forced to retire due to a shoulder injury.  - Who's the Boss?
  • Michael hears a story that human shoulder blades are a vestige of angel wings.  - Skellig
  • With a shoulder bag and a heart tattooed on her left shoulder, Charity meets her boyfriend Charlie in Central Park.  - Sweet Charity
  • She is shot in the shoulder by an assassin named Noel Dichter (Kris Lemche) with an organic pistol, which is undetectable by security.  - Existenz
  • Shortly after Cathy gives birth to twin boys, she shoots Adam in the shoulder and flees.  - East of Eden (novel)
  • They approach him, tap him on the shoulder and try talking to him, but realize he is nothing more than a statue.  - Elegy (The Twilight Zone)
  • McClane shoots Gruber in the shoulder and then kills Eddie with his final shot.  - Die Hard
  • The road to it, however, is only a single highway linking the various key bridges - trucks and tanks have to squeeze to the shoulder to pass.  - A Bridge Too Far (film)
  • After shaking Messiter's hand, he discreetly squeezes Laura on the shoulder and leaves.  - Brief Encounter
  • He lifts her over his shoulder and carries her offstage while she pummels his shoulder with her fists ("Kiss Me Kate").  - Kiss Me, Kate
  • As they prepare to land, Dutch realizes that his shoulder injury from the B-36 crash was worse than he thought, and it is almost immobile.  - Strategic Air Command (film)
  • He was no longer able to shoulder his responsibility as Earth's lone protector from Lunar-launched nuclear offensives.  - Time Out of Joint
  • Thomas Wintour was hit in the shoulder while crossing the courtyard.  - Gunpowder Plot
  • One of the men holds his shoulder and pulls him up and the other man stabs him in the heart and twists the knife twice.  - The Trial

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