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- noun Attributive form of
shoulder blade
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Examples
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One bullet ploughed a crease through his scalp, and a second burned across his shoulder-blade without breaking the skin.
Koolau the Leper 2010
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But we didn't make there by dark, for Bright, the lead-dog, broke his shoulder-blade, and we lost an hour over him before we shot him.
Flush of Gold 2010
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But the last one, an old rag-picker with a broken shoulder-blade, had been disposed of, and the first fragrant smoke wreaths had begun to curl about his head, when the gong of a hurrying ambulance came through the open window from the street, followed by the inevitable entry of the stretcher with its ghastly freight.
SEMPER IDEM 2010
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That man there, that big chap, who looks the pink of condition, with nothing the matter with him, I happen to know has a perforating ulcer in his foot and another in his shoulder-blade.
Good-bye, Jack 2010
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I don't think it lasted four minutes, at the end of which time Bill King was the unhappy possessor of four broken ribs, a broken fore-arm, and a dislocated shoulder-blade.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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He provides examples: "Under your left shoulder-blade, midway between it and the hip, is a mole β Ha!"
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I could see the exit wound just below his shoulder-blade, the blood spreading in a dark wide stain, bubbling up crimson through his jacket as he let out a sigh.
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But I have a left shoulder-blade that is a miracle of loveliness.
Let the tree be purple. Ann Althouse 2009
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The fact that humans share a shoulder-blade bone with a fish doesn't 'prove evolution' at all.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Her eyes were very bright, and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the left shoulder-blade.
Les Miserables 2008
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