shouldered
IPA: ʃˈoʊɫdɝd
adjective
- Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.
- (in combination) Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.
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Examples of "shouldered" in Sentences
- And Mr. Junkin shouldered the blame, his otherwise sterling 19-year career marred by that one play.
- Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, is n't worthy of the name.
- 'The Master of Ballantrae' shouldered 'The Queen's Regulations,' one would fancy with a swaggering hint of scorn; a battered copy of the
- Tall of stature, broad "shouldered," an open contenance, and steady eye, he is just the man to draw forth from passers-by the interrogatory, Who is he?
- Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.
- It's like extolling the noble sacrifice of Nicaragua's Samoza when he and 3,000 of his friends took in 90% of the country's wealth and earnings and munificently "shouldered" 60% of the taxes that the 4 million Nicaraguans had to caught up.
- The opening is of the form sometimes called the shouldered arch, a square lintel (which, curiously enough, is not one stone) resting on corbels; and the semicircular arch over this is of four orders, the uppermost of which projects considerably from the wall.
- The treatment of the angles after the manner of the thirteenth century "shouldered" lintel in order to take off the harshness of the rectangular form and to give a better bearing for the lintels is noteworthy and should be compared with the more developed forms at St. John's Church.
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