The majority of men, if put to the test of making their way out of that cave by shinning up the long lariat suspended from the opening above, would have failed altogether.
I was up stairs in a second, and down the lightning-rod in another one, and shinning through the dark for the lean-to.
It was on the third floor, the front windows looking down into the street, where, at night the lights of grocery stores were shinning and children were playing.
The lights in the stores were already shinning out in gushes of golden hue.
With the halliard in his teeth, he started to clamber up the pole with his arms and legs encircling it, but owing to the fact that it was a scraped spar and recently "slushed," the task of shinning it was exceedingly difficult.
There was no skys'l yard crossed on the Kelvinhaugh and no means of getting up to the truck save by shinning up the greasy pole with the aid of the skys'l back-stay.
I was up-stairs in a second, and down the lightning-rod in another one, and shinning through the dark for the lean-to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shinning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
