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Example sentences for "her shoulder"

  • I am so pleased that you are enjoying it all," said Corthell's voice at her shoulder.

  • She had taken the rose from her shoulder, and plucking the petals one by one, put them delicately between her teeth.

  • She was dressed in black taffeta, with a single great cabbage-rose pinned to her shoulder.

  • The knight laid his hand upon her shoulder, and thrust her on toward her palfrey, and spake fiercely, but not loud: Thee I pray not to fool now!

  • Now my heart was afire with that kissing of her shoulder, and I said that I would have that very same smock from her body, which then she bore, and that thereof I should deem that I had a rich gift indeed.

  • At one o'clock in the morning, as Polly was snoring by the patient's bedside, a hand was laid on her shoulder.

  • About a week after this, as Lady Bassett was walking sadly in her own garden, a great Newfoundland dog ran up to her without any warning, and put his paws almost on her shoulder.

  • And then," said he, laying his hand on her shoulder, "is it not hard?

  • She rose, but he quickly laid his hand on her shoulder, and pressed her back into the chair.

  • He put his hand out and patted her shoulder; "Poor bird!

  • You must sit down," he said gently, and put his big, quiet hand on her shoulder.

  • Her supporting arms shook so that the doctor laid a gentle hand on her shoulder, "Lie down," he said, and she fell back among her pillows.

  • To my surprise she answered promptly:-- "She in blue with a falcon on her shoulder.

  • Yolanda, still pouting, carried Caesar on her shoulder, lavishing caresses on the bird that excited Max's bitterest envy.

  • Then she stopped and glanced over her shoulder.

  • His kisses were fraternal, his embraces confined to a hand on her shoulder, an arm lightly about her waist.

  • When he remembered the brandy he put his hand on her shoulder, and finding it there, kept it so.

  • He handed the queen the rosette, and she smilingly fastened it on her shoulder again.

  • She was raving; completely beside herself with anger, she dashed away the hand which Catharine laid on her shoulder, and sprang back from the touch of her enemy like an irritated lioness.

  • He leaned his head on her shoulder, and, wholly intoxicated with happiness, he scarcely heard what she was speaking.

  • When after a few steps she looked back over her shoulder, the lagoon, the beach, the canoe, the men she had just left had become already invisible.

  • His eyes wandered downward following the line of her shoulder.

  • Lingard made a brusque movement at her elbow and bent his head close to her shoulder.

  • Suddenly Susan felt a touch on her shoulder.

  • She lay awake late that night, Betts' tear-stained but serene little face close to her shoulder, Betts' hand still tight in hers.

  • So laying his hand on her shoulder, he said: 'What is the matter, Olive?

  • Lord Chadwick laid his hand on her shoulder.

  • She told him she had been at Thornby Place the whole time the greenhouse was being built, and when they opened the door they were greeted by Sammy, He sprang instantly on her shoulder.

  • He was a very small puppy and used to climb inside Miss Laura's Jersey sleeve up to her shoulder when he was six weeks old.

  • Miss Laura would pet her, or give her something to eat, or walk around the garden carrying her on her shoulder.

  • He smiled and fell over on her shoulder with a sigh of contentment.

  • Then he got up, put his hand on her shoulder, and almost shook her out of her chair.

  • He did not resist her caress, only a slight shiver passed through his frame, and closing his eyes, he dropped his forehead on her shoulder.

  • Then she went up to her and put her hand on her shoulder.

  • Dear child, I cannot tell you all or what he feared," he finished, putting his hand lightly on her shoulder.

  • Juanita turned and watched him over her shoulder with a mystic persistency.

  • She stopped and glanced back over her shoulder at him.

  • And she went and stood by Cousin Peligros with her hand upon her shoulder as if to protect her.

  • She hesitated, and immediately his hand closed upon her shoulder.

  • He put his hand on her shoulder, and wheeled her round somewhat suddenly towards the light.

  • He put his free hand on her shoulder with an abrupt movement that made him for the moment oddly familiar.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her shoulder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her appearance; her beautiful; her body; her childhood; her friend; her future; her heart; her last; her letter; her little; her memory; her native; her place; her pocket; her self; here because; here described; here intended; here mentioned; here shown; here speaking; here taken; here the; hereby authorized; hereby ordered; heroic poetry