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Examples
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"It's a shame clerks are so narrow-shouldered," she sympathized.
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He was narrow-hipped, narrow-shouldered, and anaemic, while he seemed not so much oppressed by gloom as by a sweet and gentle sadness, the weight of which was as sweetly and gently borne.
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The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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He closely resembled a weasel, with the same skinny narrow-shouldered frame and the same beady-eyed weighing-up-his-prey look in his eyes.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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Manfred was a narrow-shouldered young man in his late teens or early twenties.
Grave Surprise Harris, Charlaine 2006
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"We were butting heads vigorously with narrow-shouldered bureaucrats in Washington," Assistant U.S.
08/08/2004 2004
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If these are used, they will often still have name tapes on them at least, that was the case in the 80s, when I got a used Army jacket once worn by a narrow-shouldered soldier named "Smith".
Sights and Sounds 2005
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Then I stood for a second behind the thin, narrow-shouldered man in a white open-collar shirt facing the fi eld.
Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005
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