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Example sentences for "shin"

Lexicographically close words:
shimmered; shimmering; shimmers; shimmery; shims; shindy; shine; shined; shiner; shiners
  1. The second special feature of the situation in Kyushu was that relations of an altogether exceptional character were established between Hideyoshi and Kennyo, abbot of the Shin sect.

  2. A few years later, the Shin believers in Echizen joined these revolters, and marched through the province, looting and burning wherever they passed.

  3. In fact, the difficulties encountered by Nobunaga in his attempts to bring the whole empire under the affective sway of the Throne were incalculably accentuated by the hostility of the great Shin sect of Buddhism.

  4. THE ZEN SECT In the Jodo and the Shin sects an ample spiritual rest was provided for the weary in mind or body, for the illiterate, and for the oppressed.

  5. Vel, and is dere any shin in going to bed, joy?

  6. Vell, is dere any shin for a man's being in a closhet?

  7. These are probably the same person mentioned in the Analects as Shin Ch'ang (申棖).

  8. Just as Helen mischievously and irreverently kicked me on the shin under the table, Uncle Peter cut the Gordian knot of his rhetoric by a loud "Amen.

  9. I grew reckless enough, in spite of a severe shin kick from Helen, to propose Aunt Ethel's health.

  10. By this time the scraped shin felt better, and he waded out to the lake proper, the water being scarcely up to his knees.

  11. His injured shin hurt him not a little and he was glad enough to plunge into the water up to his knees.

  12. And besides, the twist of Europe's foot had not struck his shin only.

  13. Clear Gravy Soup This may be made from shin of beef, which should not be large or coarse.

  14. The shin of beef makes an excellent stock.

  15. Boil a shin of beef twelve hours in eight or ten quarts of water; draw the gravy from a knuckle of veal in the same manner; put the same herbs and spices as if for soup, and add the whole to the shin of beef.

  16. Boil from four to six pounds of good shin of beef well broken, until the liquor is very good.

  17. In contrast to the cubist treatment of the shin style, the so defines no planes but allows elements of the landscape to blend into one another through carefully controlled variations in tonality.

  18. Amida: widely worshiped figure in Buddhist pantheon and central figure of adoration in Jodo and Jodo Shin Buddhism.

  19. The on'y man that said a word was the carman, who was in such a hurry that 'e knocked his bad shin against my foot as 'e went by.

  20. And we don't want none of your lip," ses the carman, who was in a bad temper because he 'ad got a fearful kick on the shin from somewhere.

  21. In some plows this is replaced by an upward projection of the share; this is wide at the back and sharp in front and is called the shin of the plow from its resemblance to the shin bone.

  22. Of all ungrateful worlds, this world was the most-- He stopped suddenly in his stride, partly because his shin had struck a chair, partly because an idea had struck his mind.

  23. The Amitâbha sûtras take the place of the New Testament for the Jōdō and Shin sects and copies of them may also be found in almost every monastery throughout China and Annam.

  24. AC] It is amazing how far the Shin sect has broken away from regular Buddhistic doctrine and practice.

  25. De yuther servants wouldn' miss me, kase dey'd shin out en take holiday soon as de ole folks 'uz out'n de way.

  26. He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick.

  27. This boy appeared to be a Shin worshipper.

  28. We would haul in the rope, make it fast, and then shin down.

  29. Nor was he longer sitting there with his eyes closed, groping at the fastening of his leggings in the endeavor to get the shin protectors off.

  30. I was naturally astonished, and immediately wrote: I did fall and skin my shin at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, but how did you find it out?

  31. Next morning I received a note, prompted by Mr. Clemens, in which he said: Tell Paine I am sorry he fell and skinned his shin at five o'clock yesterday afternoon.

  32. I followed the letter in person next day, and learned that at the same hour on the same afternoon Clemens himself had fallen up the front steps and, as he said, peeled off from his "starboard shin a ribbon of skin three inches long.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    shine before; shine forth; shine upon; shining like