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chin

How to use chin in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for chin.

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Eventually I bought new drill bits, a new drill, six inch screws and I can do chin ups on the damn things. The lesson 1.

Examples8
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

the protruding part of the lower jaw

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of chin gathered in one view.

noun

the protruding part of the lower jaw

noun

Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India

verb

raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chin.

noun

the protruding part of the lower jaw

noun

Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India

verb

raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar

Example sentences

1

Eventually I bought new drill bits, a new drill, six inch screws and I can do chin ups on the damn things. The lesson 1.

2

Keep your chin up and look beyond this. This app is not the fight worth expending energy fighting for.

3

>plus what are the chances you knock your 5-year old's chin on the way up? Probably the same chances that you will knock over your child when you swing open a conventional door.

4

Netflix has been taking it on the chin this year as they've passed through a really rough patch. In the end, though, I'd put money on Netflix existing in 2020 before I would any given broadcast network.

5

Nice to see Mr Spolsky taking it on the chin and not making excuses. I would be interested in seeing an online version of any of the presentations.

6

Look, yes Yahoo needs to take it in the chin as well as their decision makers and true owners. Regular employees even with their stock options are for all intensive purposes not owners.

Quote examples

1

But you cant spend the first 15 minutes watching CNN from the treadmill and the last 15 warming down. Every second has to count, and it all starts with understanding the four basic muscular aptitudes: strength, power, muscle mass, and muscular endurance. [... ] The whole trick to athletic training and this is true for everybody from bodybuilders to marathoners to noncompetitive athletes just in it for health, or even vanity is timing each subsequent workout so it hits the middle of that so-called supercompensation peak, when a muscle has already bounced back even stronger than before but hasnt yet returned to baseline. [... ] It can be hard to believe a true strength coach the first time he tells you that by pressing and dead-lifting on even days, squatting and doing chin-ups on odd days, avoiding all other exercises, and adding a little to the bar each time, youll be stronger than youve ever been in only a months time.

2

- 1 So basically, the method of bitcoin exchange isn't all that different from ForEx. What's happened here is that the trading house has taken a fall, but doesn't appear prepared to take it on the chin. I don't know much about Mt. Gox. Any guesses as to whether or not they're insured?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use chin in a sentence?

Eventually I bought new drill bits, a new drill, six inch screws and I can do chin ups on the damn things. The lesson 1.

What does chin mean?

the protruding part of the lower jaw

What part of speech is chin?

chin is commonly used as noun, verb.