Neck

//nɛk//

"Neck" in a Sentence (28 examples)

The horses are coming down the track and it's neck and neck.

My neck snapped when I did a headstand.

Mary threw her arms around her father's neck.

It's a pain in the neck.

Don't risk your neck over something foolish.

The horse broke its neck when it fell.

The cat had a ribbon around its neck.

The girl had a long scarf around her neck.

The girl has a scarf around her neck.

Its neck and head were very soft.

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Giraffes have long necks.

Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.

Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.

a neck forming the journal of a shaft

to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck

Shorty throw neck like a geese She make me speak Portuguese

She drop neck for a check and a paystub

The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands

"The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.

Go neck yourself.

Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.

Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her.

Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.

In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.

The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.

Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.

The Neck no more upon the river sings. And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.

The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]

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