Example Sentences

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The season is now into its final quarter, but Arsenal has been shouldering the weight of expectation for months—and not always comfortably.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

He’s a 24-year-old kid who has been shouldering expectations from the moment he left high school.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023

For the coach, who has been shouldering the blame for the team’s slow start.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2018

The newest problems only add to other burden’s Cain has been shouldering in recent months.

From Time • Nov. 2, 2011

He is the broad-shouldered, beef-eating John Bull, who has been shouldering his way through the world ever since.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir