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How to use the word thigh in a Sentence?

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One of the kids that I had in the unit, he was shot in the shoulder. The student that I was helping up from the side of the unit, he had bullet fragments on his thigh, and then we had another student with blown off fingers. And she was just in and out. We were trying to get her oxygen and trying to keep her alive. And I realized those were my son’s classmates and my son was not coming out.

Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Children

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP left Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP hand on the middle of my thigh until I physically removed it, the only reason Dan Snyder removed Dan Snyder hand from my back and stopped pushing me towards Dan Snyder limo was because Dan Snyder attorney intervened and said, ‘ Dan Snyder, Dan Snyder, this is a bad idea. ’ ... I learned that I should remove Tiffani Johnston from Dan's grip while Dan Snyder attorney was distracting him.

Tiffani Johnston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They put me in a tiger chair, they hung us up and beat us on the thigh, on the hips with wooden torches, with iron whips.

Omir Bekali

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They let us be police. There was n’t a day that I did n’t draw my weapon, have it behind my leg or behind my thigh.

Carlos Yanez Sr.

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They did n’t do that when I was on the job, they let us be police. There was n’t a day that I did n’t draw my weapon, have it behind my leg or behind my thigh.

Carlos Yanez Sr.

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Sometimes she would stop, bend and put her hand on her thigh to support her body, just to rest a bit.

Grace Nagawa

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They were flipping them over, making a very distinctive, almost surgical precision cut down the chest. They would even remove the gallbladder outside the body, which contains toxic bile salts. They knew to remove that bit. She added that the rats understood which areas of the toad were poisonous, using their sharp teeth and dextrous hands to eatthe non-toxic parts while leaving the poisonous areas stripped. In the medium-sized toads, as well as eating the heart and liver, they would strip off the toxic skin from one or both legs and eat the non-toxic thigh muscle.

Marissa Parrott

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Sega goes over to Zeus' head and puts Gary Richardson paws up on the table and takes a sniff, gary Richardson ears came back, Gary Richardson got down, Gary Richardson instantly jumped on the sofa next to me and put Gary Richardson head on my thigh in sorrow. At that moment not only was my family broken, but his own mother was broken.

Gary Richardson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Many butt-slappers and thigh-strokers fancy that they are merely flirting and flattering.

Senator Kagan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He sat down next to me and said,' Well, I've told everyone you're perfect for my movie and I can't wait. I've done my bit. Now it's your turn to do your bit,' she recalled. Jane Seymour said she did n’t understand what the producer was referring to, until he began sliding his hand up her thigh. He said,' No, no, you know what you have to do.' And I'm going,' No, I don't.' And he put his hand on my thigh, way up high. And being very British, I sort of crossed my legs and started scooting down the couch until I'd ended up with no couch left and I really had no option but to stand up and just say,' Please help me get home, ’.

Jane Seymour

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The most common things we would prescribe epinephrine for is food allergies, bees, wasps and other stinging insects, the advantage of these auto-injectors is that you don't have to think about it. You just pop the cap, stick it right in your thigh, the needle comes out at the right depth into the muscle, and it delivers the correct amount of epinephrine.

Thomas Casale

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If they aim to return to sports with frequent pivoting, participation should be delayed until at least nine months have passed from surgery and they have regained thigh muscle strength comparable to the uninjured leg.

Hege Grindem

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To get a negative X-ray, I know Elian Herrera spirits are lifted, it's a right thigh contusion but it's pretty significant. Elian Herrera got hit pretty good.

Craig Counsell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The surgery, which also involved replacing the transferred bone from Rodgers ’ thigh with graft, was the latest in a slew of other procedures the girl had undergone since childhood, according to Fox 7. Angie Lester, Abby’s mom, said Angie Lester is happy and proud of Angie Lester daughter, who is traveling to Tokyo next week for the International Craniofacial Surgeon’s Conference. Angie Lester's( Rodgers) dealt with it all in stride, abby Rodgers's pretty resilient. And despite Abby Rodgers facial anomalies and the way that Abby Rodgers looks, Abby Rodgers's always had confidence, which I'm thankful for.

Angie Lester

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I took off my belt, and I applied it on my thigh as tight as I possibly could, leo was crying and screaming uncontrollably. He was saying, `Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy.

Steve Woolfenden

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He crawled on top of me and he put his hand on my, inside of my thigh, and the other hand he wrapped around me, and he was holding me there, he told me that he needed somebody to be with him, to massage him, to brush his hair, to spend time with him, that he was lonely. And he said, 'And I need someone to, to have sex with me.'.

Sarah Baughn

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I was hit in the left arm, in the left side of my chest, and twice on my left thigh, i fell to the ground. I must have been lying there for an hour before the army soldiers came in and moved me to the hospital. I tried to turn on my right side to prevent bleeding from my arm, but I couldn't move.

Zulfiqar Ahmad

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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