ANKLE in a Sentence

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63 example sentences for ANKLE, such as:

1. Several pretty models ankle through the hall.
2. She's going to need an operation on her ankle.
3. These tight shoes have given me blisters on my ankles.
4. The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle.
5. Do as what the doctor said, Put ice on the swelling ankle.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANKLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ankle
 n.  joint which connects the foot with the leg; tarsus
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  Scarlett stood for a moment, ankle deep in mud as the guns lurched by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  Why had God invented children, she thought savagely as she turned her ankle cruelly on the dark road--useless, crying nuisances they were, always demanding care, always in the way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  "Mind you don't turn your ankle on those stepping stones," said the soldier, taking her arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  In these spots the mud was ankle deep and her slippers stuck in it as if it were glue, even coming completely off her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  He crossed his legs and bent over, clutching his ankle with both hands.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  A little girl who lived on the Black Hawk road was bitten on the ankle and had been sick all summer.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
7  Then he gripped the sides of the bed, and shut his teeth together, and turned white with agony, while the doctor pulled and wrenched away at his swollen ankle.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  The latter part of April Jurgis went to see the doctor, and was given a bandage to lace about his ankle, and told that he might go back to work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  Tom got in, and Haley, drawing out from under the wagon seat a heavy pair of shackles, made them fast around each ankle.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  When Wildeve came on to that spot his ankle was caught by something, and he fell headlong.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
11  Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
12  He had had one of those violent strains of the ankle which leave a man helpless.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
13  When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
14  As I did the same I felt the hand of the man behind me grab at my ankle, but I kicked myself free and scrambled over a grass-strewn coping.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
15  I stood up and found my foot with the loose heel swollen at the ankle and painful under the heel; so I sat down again, took off my shoes, and flung them away.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  I couldn't put my weight on my ankle and had to hop everywhere.
2  She turned her ankle on the rocks and had to hobble back to camp.
3  The trap closed round her leg, badly mangling her ankle.
4  She's going to need an operation on her ankle.
5  Several pretty models ankle through the hall.
6  I was moving some furniture and I twisted my ankle in the process.
7  Three minutes into the match, Jackson limped off the pitch with a serious ankle injury.
8  On close examination, the boy can be seen to have a woven strand of some sort around his left ankle, possibly adornment, spiritual or medicinal.
9  There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I didn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders.
10  Do as what the doctor said, Put ice on the swelling ankle.
11  She's got a horrible little dog that yaps around your ankles.
12  These tight shoes have given me blisters on my ankles.
13  Police had to shackle the criminal's ankles to prevent his escape.