Word: elbowed
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...perfect: overcast and misty. Eyeing the familiar high school track, she tried to hold back her nervous excitement as she adjusted her biker gloves and knee pads. Today, she had ditched the bubble wrap that usually covered her hand and knee padding. But she had added something new: elbow pads on her shoes...
...Saturday’s game, an already-beleaguered Crimson defense was playing without the help of sophomore linebacker Alex Gedeon—who is out for the rest of the season with an elbow injury requiring surgery—or senior linebacker Conor Murphy, who sat out Saturday’s game with a sprained ankle...
...second half was decidedly rougher than the first. Trying to clear the ball out of the box, co-captain Lizzy Nichols took what looked to be an elbow to the nose and was escorted off the field with a towel to her face...
...times the period details elbow out Byatt's story (parts of the novel read like notes for a cultural history), those details are never less than fascinating. Some English soldiers, we learn, named trenches for beloved works of literature - children's books, no less. But by the end of The Children's Book, it's hard to imagine the young men who christened Peter Pan Trench as harboring any illusions about not growing up or sharing Peter's view that "to die will be an awfully big adventure...
...hour hand hits 11. After class, he’s immediately surrounded by a small swarm of students. He takes a swig of Peet’s Coffee. He makes his way out with one student glued to his elbow, glowing about how “academically yummy” today’s lesson...