shoulder blades
- plural of shoulder blade.
Example Sentences
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She describes "indelible buds" and "knuckles at the shoulder-blades" arriving with only a "Half-brain."
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2022
Nabokov has some fine lines about “reading with your spine,” and waiting for the “telltale tingle” between the shoulder-blades that tells you when a book has power.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020
He snuggled down between the roots of the tree, trying to find a comfortable place where the hard wood did not stick into his shoulder-blades.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
I go on my hands and knees on the floor, like this, with a match lying on my back between my shoulder-blades.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
His shoulder-blades were twisted in his nervousness as he mounted the steps to the throne.
From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas
