noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thigh/hip/ankle etc bone
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He was so thin that his hip bones were sticking out.
chicken breast/thigh/wing
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Chop the chicken breast into pieces.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
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His hard thighs brushed hers as he shifted suddenly, picking up the telephone nestling in the armrest.
inner
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I've done liposuction on her back, her inner thighs , her triceps and a little on her abdomen.
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Her legs sagged and a small trickle of urine dampened her inner thighs as the nun slowly turned to face her.
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Even when she strokes my inner thigh , back and forth like rocking a cradle, I hardly notice what she is doing.
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Parr looked at the exposure of her inner thigh with a dropping sensation.
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Place the beach ball on to your left leg inner thigh and raise you leg.
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Bend the other leg, placing the foot as close as possible to the inner thigh of the other leg.
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Bend your left knee and feel the stretch in the inner thigh of your right leg.
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I think I've bruised my inner thigh .
left
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Pull up your leg muscles and feel how solid that left thigh is becoming!
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Gray baled out of his shattered Z3060, wounded in the left thigh .
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Place the beach ball on to your left leg inner thigh and raise you leg.
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As he straightened up and regained his balance a spasm of pain shot through his left thigh .
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He knew he had broken his left thigh before he hit the ground.
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The sixth hit him high on the inside of his left thigh .
muscular
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Ace felt very small, perched on the muscular thighs of this bear-hugging, hairy giant.
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Seated there, she would bend slightly over the typewriter, spreading her full muscular jean-clad thighs .
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He had a lovely mouth and lovely muscular thighs .
right
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Place hands on right thigh and feel the stretch along the back of the left leg from back of knee upwards.
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Quinn flapped the red notebook nervously against his right thigh , stood on his tiptoes, and peered into the throng.
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Lying on your side, place your right hand at the top of your right thigh .
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He had a fever and complained about a pain in his right thigh .
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Returning the Steyr to the holster, he reached into the holster on his right thigh and slipped the cut-down Winchester free.
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His right thigh was between hers, and his face was buried in the pillow and strands of her hair.
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Cornelius observed that a beauty spot on her right thigh resembled the Isle of Lyonesse.
upper
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There was some feeling, not much, in his knees and upper thighs .
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The usual treatment involves application of two patches at bedtime to the upper arms, thighs , or abdomen.
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The rim of the steel plate scraped his upper thighs .
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However, infinitely more entertaining is a gentle stroking on the inside of the upper thigh .
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As the group advanced on him, the constable fired off another shot, this time hitting Jones in the upper thigh .
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He still bore the scars of her teeth on his calf and upper thigh .
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Waist twisting exercises: these limber up all the muscles in the upper body and thighs .
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The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith.
■ NOUN
bone
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The cast of a thigh bone of the Shropshire Monster attracted much attention.
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Squab can often be purchased with all but the leg and thigh bones and wing joint removed.
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The vas deferens is about 18 inches long, the same length as the thigh bone .
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Scrape meat away from around thigh bone .
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The Company magazine is also criticised for carrying another controversial Benetton advertisement showing a black soldier holding a human thigh bone .
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Remove legs from the pheasant and remove thigh bone out to create a pocket.
cream
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The manufacturers of the thigh cream had never actually promised it would work, however.
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Overnight, the thigh cream story spread to other newspapers and television.
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The idea of a fat-reducing thigh cream raised a lot of questions.
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By January 1994, several thigh creams were being sold, some with the inventors' blessings and some without.
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Bray and Greenway had now sold the idea for thigh cream two more times.
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If you took a bath in thigh cream , would you emerge thinner all over?
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Several copycat versions of the thigh cream appeared almost immediately, such as Skinny Dip.
injury
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Flair Souness was also denied the attacking flair of Mark Walters, sidelined with a thigh injury .
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For Oldham goalkeeper, John Hallworth, a thigh injury has been torture.
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Dozzell had a thigh injury and Johnson a back problem.
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But McHale will also consider youngster David Holmes, who has resumed training after recovering from a thigh injury .
muscle
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DeFreitas injured a thigh muscle early in the tour and missed the first Test.
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Frank had a perfect bubble-butt and massive thigh muscles clearly outlined in his khaki pants.
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As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs, he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle .
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Quickly Robert inserted the needle into the thigh muscle , and in about a minute, the small body went limp.
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Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure.
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This stretches and tones the front thigh muscle without adding bulk, and relaxes the muscles after the previous exercise.
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When finally I made the summit, my throat parched, my thigh muscles trembling, the herb woman was waiting.
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Former Manchester United reserve Paul Dalton is rated extremely doubtful with a strained thigh muscle .
strain
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This was understood, the paperwork went through, he had got a thigh strain .
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We were going to get him right on this thigh strain ....
■ VERB
feel
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She wanted to touch her body to his, feel his powerful thighs against her own.
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So close, he could feel breath on his thigh .
run
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Her hand ran up inside his thigh and touched.
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Squab are done when juices run clear when thigh is pierced with a fork.
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Turn and grill until juices run clear at the thigh when pricked with a fork, 3 to 5 minutes.
slap
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Long gourds are the preferred form for slapping against the thighs .
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He did not kno., v that he had made a joke until he saw Mel slapping his thigh and laughing.
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I had to slap my thigh and cavort around.
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He slapped his enormous thighs and laughed some more.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Elephantiasis had taken over his legs and now one thigh was the size of two.
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Ellie leaned back against the school piano, her gray skirt revealing the camber of her thighs.
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Her whole stance challenged him, her long legs crossed, her linen skirt ending high on her bare thighs.
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She watched her friend's institutional baby-blue smock turn dark along her thighs.
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The backs of his thighs were bulging, his hamstrings taut as guy wires.
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Then I felt his hand on my thigh .