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"Shank" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Even the best tennis players shank their shots occasionally.
If the car breaks down, I’ll have to go by shank’s mare.
The traditional elements are all in place—including the Seder plate which holds unleavened bread, green vegetables, bitter herbs and a shank bone.
Edward I of England was nicknamed Edward Longshanks.
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank […]
The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.
This twist drill has a reduced shank so that it can be used even in a small chuck.
To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.
LBC's tryna blackball me / And tryna blame your boy for knife crime (Like, what?) / I don't use a shank, I got money in the bank / Man, I'd rather do a drive-by
One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner.
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the shank of the morning
AMANDA: Going now? You're joking! Why, it's only the shank of the evening, Mr. O’Connor!
Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.
The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).
I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.
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