Accordingly, next evening, Mr Wilson, true to his promise, shouldered his gun and sallied forth.
The trapper then shouldered his rifle and hurried away.
The clerk shouldered his spade and prepared to lock the gate.
The girls drew on their bonnets and shawls, and the young men shouldered the wheels.
Meanwhile, the other boys had been engaged in making up the various packs which from now on must be shouldered by each member of the expedition.
And as there was nothing more to be done, the two chums returned to the creek, shouldered their heavy packs after resuming their skates, and went on their way.
Jim laughed, shouldered his hoe, and marched away across the little strip of grass between the house and garden--so-called.
Melvin courageously shouldered the cage of monkeys which he would gladly have left behind save for Gerald's partnership in them.
Saul was lifted into it; Judas climbed in beside him; the servants shouldered the litter, and, with the Levites following, bore it away into the city.
The discomfited sentry muttered and shouldered his weapon.
She turned her face away from the colloquy between Caesar and the charioteer and studied the summer-green Alban Hills that shouldered the sky behind her.
The numerous separate handles which have also been found have all belonged to the same form of amphora, with long square-shouldered handles, as on the Athenian and Chian coins.
Connor met them at the door andshouldered Clive's trunk and other luggage; then Athalie slipped her arm through his and took him into the autumn glow of her garden.
The Pedler sighed, shook his head, and shouldered his brooms.
Very cautiously I began creeping nearer the passive figure, while the hammer beat so loud that it seemed he must hear it where he stood: a shortish, broad-shouldered figure, clad in a blue coat.
But here, meeting my eye, he shouldered his brooms hastily and moved off.
They glanced again at the hoop-shouldered man and wondered what his countenance was like, for they could not see a feature of it as he read.
The voyagers shouldered their packs and made their way up the High Street to the brick house.
Landing on the Manhattan shore, the boys shouldered their luggage and trudged by ill-lighted lanes across the island to the East River.
Only old Jock, the collie, who shouldered up to him and gave his hand a companionable lick, kept the boy from shedding a few unmanly tears.
Great hogsheads of molasses and rum from Jamaica, set ashore from newly arrived ships, shouldered for room with baled cotton and boxes of tobacco ready to be loaded.
Nathan had not been long away when he shouldered his axe and hastened toward the house.
He shoulderedthe sack, and found it now A most remarkable weight.
Illustration] So he put on his cap and shouldered a sack, And walked very sly and slow; And after a while he came in sight Of the snug little house below.
When I had laid the tree low, I clipped off the lower branches, snapped off the top with a single clean stroke of the axe, and shouldered as pretty a second-growth sapling stick as anyone ever laid his eyes upon.
At the crossing of the brook I shouldered my way from the road down a path among the alders, thinking the brown cow might have gone that way to obscurity.
When they had shouldered their packs and disappeared down the valley, Gale held out his hand to the soldier.
He was a tall, fair-haired, broad-shouldered man of about thirty years of age.
The speaker was a tall, broad-shouldered sub-lieutenant, Ronald Tressidar by name.
With no additional protection from the driving rain, which was now full in their faces, the thinly clad British Tommy shouldered the repaired rod and followed Dick into the street.
At first sight of the tall, narrow-shouldered form and anxious face waiting for him in his private room, Wharton felt a movement of ill-humour.
It was dusk on a summer evening, as a tall broad-shouldered man made his way down a path that led through the Vicarage garden at Winchmere.
From the other end of the terrace, Lady Dorothy, who was reading a newspaper to old Lady Steele, paused now and again to shoot a glance at the broad-shouldered man walking by her father's side.
If a young person bends the body forward, he will, after a time, become round-shouldered and his chest will become so flattened that the lungs cannot be well expanded.
Students are very apt to make themselves flat-chested and round-shouldered by leaning over their desks while writing or studying.
With one hand she grasped the ends of her strong tow-linen apron, with the other she still shouldered the spade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shouldered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
