Uplifting exercises, informally

Usage examples of chins.

They've only got a basic hundred surnames in all China and of those there're twenty Yus, eight Yens, ten Wus and God knows how many Pings, Lis, Lees, Chens, Chins, Chings, Wongs and Fus and each one of them you pronounce five different ways so God knows who's who!

One of the false breasts (surely false: surely they would not go as far as the hormonal, Marathe thought) nearly touched the chins of Steeply when his looking down produced his double chins.

High-def mask-entrepreneurs ready and willing to supply not just verisimilitude but aesthetic enhancement stronger chins, smaller eye-bags, air-brushed scars and wrinkles soon pushed the original mimetic-mask-entrepreneurs right out of the market.

He and Trevor Axford and Hal Incandenza are in Pemulis's room, with Pemulis's roommates Schacht and Troeltsch down at lunch, so they're alone, Pemulis and Axford and Hal, stroking their chins, looking down at Michael Pemulis's yachting cap on his bed.

A national ranking of 74 in Boys 18-and-Under Singles, while mediocre by the standards of aspiring pros, is enough to make most college coaches' chins shiny.

How do I calculate this distant road of long term into my action of this moment, now, with our dead comrade clutching the soup and both of us with spittle on our chins as we regard the soup?

A blue-haired woman, sporting more chins than I had owned in my heyday, went squealing past us up the stairs, the skirt of her paisley silk dress clutched in both hands.

Her bloated face shook with chins and her bosom was an entire feather bed more than a bolster.

I stopped doing chins and felt a spurt of renewed interest in championing my husband's career.

She lifted a mirror off a wall shelf, twitched a side curl, pursed her lips, and patted the chins into shape with the back of her hand.

The narrow clawed hands met under their squared chins in the same gesture of respect he'd seen in a thousand beamed conversations, then the great wings spread as far as they could in the confined space.

The woman's chins trembled and her mouth contorted with sudden grief.

They were the messiest pre-adolescents Iantine had ever encountered: plump, since they were indolent by nature, dressed in ill-fitting apparel since the Hold's seamstress was not particularly adept, and constantly eating: generally something that ran, smeared or left crumbs on their chins and tunics.

If you withdraw, Tightfist will too, and the Chins, Four Fingers… and all the others.

If Tightfist had sold, the Chins would sell and a dozen other friends would follow his lead and that meant chaos.