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Example sentences for "neck"

Lexicographically close words:
necessitous; necessity; neche; neches; necio; neckband; neckcloth; neckcloths; necke; necked
  1. In the latter, only the neck of the tube is ciliated, while in animals higher in the scale than the batrachia, the uriniferous tube is perfectly destitute of cilia.

  2. In a moment more, he found that all the muscular power which remained in his neck and back had deserted him at a stroke.

  3. He therefore came to Manila, took holy orders, and designed and superintended the building of Guadalupe Church, from the scaffolding of which he fell, and having been caught by the neck in a rope suspended from the timbers he was hanged.

  4. In Mindanao Island, on the neck of land forming the western extremity, the Durien thrives.

  5. When grazing near flooded land it will roam into the water up to its neck and immerse its head for two minutes at a time, searching for vegetable food below the surface.

  6. He had broken the neck of the rebellion, but by what means?

  7. He could see the straining muscles in the other's neck standing out like great, purple, swollen cords.

  8. The bullet had cut across the side of her neck just above the shoulder; the wound was bleeding profusely, and over the package of banknotes, around which her arms were still tightly clasped, there had spread a crimson stain.

  9. Mr. Blinkhorn was a tall angular man, with a long neck and slightly drooping head.

  10. And, reaching over, he hauled out the wretched Paul by the scruff of his neck in a state of utter collapse, and deposited him on the ground before him.

  11. So she took the sharp knife in her paw, and she just slashed it good through the string that tied up the neck of the bag, and in a minute out popped the man, and stood up on his feet.

  12. No, I mean the neck of the bag,” said Polly.

  13. Phronsie in terror; and springing up she seized Polly’s neck with both hands, and burst into tears.

  14. While as for you, Van, I don’t know but what I much better pitch you out neck and heels, as it seems you begun it.

  15. And it was trimmed around the bottom and the neck by a rainbow, and”-- “O Polly!

  16. We like exceedingly to lay the reins, as it were, upon the neck of our inclinations, to go where they take us, and to ask no questions whether we are in the right road or no.

  17. She would not impose her yoke upon future generations, nor will she submit her own neck to the yoke of antiquity.

  18. Now above the Queen Elizabeth, making slowly backwards and forwards up in the neck of the Narrows, were other men-o'-war spitting tons of hot metal at the Turks.

  19. Democritus also asserts, and Pliny confirms him in the assertion, that if the head and neck of the chameleon be burned on oak charcoal it will cause thunder and heavy rain.

  20. In his neck abideth strength, And terror danceth before him.

  21. Marking the tracts of air, the clamorous cranes Wheel their due flight in varied ranks descried; And each with outstretched neck his rank maintains, In marshalled order through th' ethereal void.

  22. Putting pitch on her head and on her arms, and strips of deerskin around her neck with pitch on them, she cried and went around mourning.

  23. His neck is too long, his legs are too long.

  24. Then he took his flint knife, cut around the bear's neck and behind his two fore paws, and skinned him, put the skin on his shoulder, and started for Jigulmatu.

  25. I have seen only the head and neck of one; what I saw looked well, seemed good.

  26. Olelbis plucked one small feather from the neck of Moihas.

  27. He put his brother on his back, drew Keriha's arms around his own neck closely, and started.

  28. She is there beyond that wall, the fair young bride, who is awaiting you; her ear on the alert, her neck outstretched, she is listening to each of your movements.

  29. The thought of appearing before all these people--don't the flowers drooping from my head make my neck appear rather awkward, Ernest?

  30. I say that they sometimes blinded me; I repeat, blinded me, and this is true, for really I must have been possessed to have kissed my aunt on the neck as I did that day.

  31. I thought of you, my pious friend, as I was buttoning the neck and the wrists of this conventional garment.

  32. May it not, therefore, be concluded that it swam on or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach?

  33. Eighthly, a tooth of a pachydermatous animal, probably the same with the Macrauchenia, a huge beast with a long neck like a camel.

  34. Its enormously long neck comprises a greater number of vertebræ than the neck of either the Camel, the Giraffe, or even the Swan, which of all the feathered race has the longest neck in comparison to the rest of the body.

  35. The vertebræ of the neck (as exhibited in the foreshortened figure (Fig.

  36. The short, thick neck of the Ichthyosaurus supported a capacious head, and was continued backwards, from behind the eyes, in a column composed of more than a hundred vertebræ.

  37. If she could twine her arms about the monarch's neck and transport him in a delirium of passion, this was only part of what she did.

  38. Each day now brought its hours of blissful meeting, so seemingly short that the Princess would throw her arms around her "hawker's" neck and implore him to stay a little longer.

  39. Pergami took it off again and put it jestingly on the neck of the Princess, who in her turn once more removed it and put it again round Pergami's neck.

  40. But Joe Morrow, his nephew, huddled down into a turtle-neck sweater and shivered.

  41. Then she took down the guitar, passed round her neck the faded blue riband, tied on it at Seville, and which her mother would never allow to be changed.

  42. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.

  43. After passing a few compliments with the General, Queen Adelaide presented him with a beautiful little gold watch, placing the chain around his neck with her own hands.

  44. He was a sly, treacherous, blood-thirsty savage, who would think no more of scalping a family of women and children, than a butcher would of wringing the neck of a chicken.

  45. Hate seizes a man, by the scruff of the neck and throws him out violently, saying: Get out, you blackguard!

  46. Was it his fault if his cleverness grew so much that there was no room in his soul to contain both it and that stupid little virtue honesty, so that the latter had to be cast out neck and crop?

  47. She is an affectionate little thing, and she throws her arms round his neck and kisses him for it, then and there, outside the shop.

  48. With a catlike bound he reached the chief, fastened a hand about the man's bull neck and lifted him into the air.

  49. True to its target flew Tharn's arrow, the sharp point striking squarely at the juncture of neck and the skull's base.

  50. These men are----" A savage hand about his neck choked off his words.

  51. There was a sharp brittle sound like a branch breaking and Posak sank lifelessly to the ground, his neck snapped cleanly in two.

  52. For a long moment the cat stood as motionless as some beautifully carved statue, then gracefully bent its neck to dip the soft furry muzzle into the water.

  53. The neck of the bottle burst and cut into his arm.

  54. Something in his manner recalled vividly to Gordon Kate's appeal to Hawke of the night before; but he unwound the scarf from the neck of the wounded man.

  55. We must use mine, then, and knock the neck off.

  56. He lifted her slight figure with an absence of effort or jerk which told of practised sinews, and Kate clasped her hands behind his neck and nestled down into his arms with a child's sigh of content.

  57. I love him not," replied Amy, while her face and even neck crimsoned with the words.

  58. Patient should be kept in a moist warm atmosphere, and cold water applied to the neck early in the attack.

  59. It is very important that the face and neck be kept warm.

  60. After a few respirations it cries out and then falls asleep quietly, or the attack may last an hour or so, when the face will become pale, veins in the neck become turgid and feet and hands contract spasmodically.

  61. Make the dresses "Mother Hubbard"--Put on first a soft woolen shirt, then prepare the flannel skirts to hang from the neck like a slip.

  62. Occasionally a young lady will be called upon unexpectedly when her neck and smiling face are not emblems of cleanliness.

  63. Wash neck and chest with hot water, then rub in sweet oil all that you can work in.

  64. When a child is operated upon before the age of puberty, the voice retains its childish treble, the limbs their soft and rounded outlines, and the neck acquires a feminine fulness; no beard makes its appearance.

  65. In from 6 to 18 hours a fine red rash appears about the ears, neck and shoulders, which rapidly spreads to the entire surface of the body.

  66. Do not bathe the neck and face just before or after being out of doors.

  67. A slight fever, stiffness of the neck and lower jaw, swelling and soreness of the gland.

  68. For rheumatism in the head, to be rubbed at the back of the neck and behind the ears.

  69. It was Paddy Flynn himself, a retired pugilist, with the face and neck of a bull, wearing a sweater and sandshoes, his arms and legs bared to show the enormous muscles of the ancient athlete.

  70. One fell flat, the other rolled on its edge, every neck craned to follow its movements.

  71. He turned into Cardigan Street with the air of a man who is putting his neck in the noose, resolving secretly to cut and run at the least hint of danger.

  72. When the doctor arrived, he told them that death had been instantaneous, as she had broken her neck in the fall.

  73. The woman in the nightdress had edged nearer, craning her neck over the shoulders of the men to see better.

  74. I'll screw Sarah's neck when I can spare the time," said Chook, savagely.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviation; address; advocate; ankle; arm; articulation; astringency; back; backbone; backing; bandeau; bearer; boundary; brace; bracer; bracket; breast; butt; buttress; canal; cane; carrier; cervix; channel; circumscription; clinch; closure; compression; concentration; condensation; connection; consolidation; constriction; copulate; corset; coupling; crook; crutch; cuddle; curtailment; dally; decapitate; decrease; defile; dovetail; drumstick; elbow; embrace; fowl; fulcrum; garment; giblets; girdle; guy; hang; head; hinge; hip; hourglass; interface; isthmus; joining; joint; juncture; kiss; knee; knitting; knuckle; leg; link; love; lynch; mainstay; mast; miter; mortise; narrowing; narrows; neck; noose; oyster; parts; pass; pet; pivot; prop; puckering; rabbet; reduction; reinforcement; rest; rigging; scarf; scrag; seam; shoulder; shroud; solidification; spine; spoon; staff; stave; stay; stick; stitch; strait; strangulation; strengthener; stretch; stricture; support; supporter; sustainer; suture; systole; thigh; throat; toggle; toy; trifle; union; upholder; wanton; weld; wing; wishbone; stretch; stricture; support; supporter; sustainer; suture; systole; thigh; throat; toggle; toy; trifle; union; upholder; wanton; weld; wing; wishbone