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n. A road shoulder made of gravel rather than asphalt or concrete.
Usage examples of "soft shoulder".
The silver Ford with the tinted windows was parked on the soft shoulder, waiting for us.
Kelly picks up a crying baby and comforts him on her soft shoulder.
She made sleepy sounds, and he ran his hands through her thick hair and across her soft shoulder.
Shooting the bow was rough on Miss Ponsky's shoulder, but she made a soft shoulder-pad and eight times out of ten she put a bolt into a twelve-inch circle, clucking deprecatingly when she missed.
The traffic would be at a standstill, and some idiots would already have begun passing on the right, in the soft shoulder of the road, and others would be trying to break out of the line of cars, to turn around and go back to their summer homes—.
Some of it splashed Mordechai Anielewicz as he trudged along on the soft shoulder.
One toughened yet surprisingly soft shoulder pushed, perhaps accidentally, perhaps not, against his side.
With that wild abandon which betrayed the desert blood in her veins, she wrenched open the neck of her bodice and slipped a soft shoulder free of the garment.
He seemed to have an uncanny skill at just shaving the soft shoulder of the highway.
Momentum carrying them both, Shade and Bryan collided, then rolled together onto the soft shoulder of the road.
His arms useless, the impostor stumbled on the soft shoulder of the road.
But then he felt the truck shudder, and he stopped thinking about such things, even though he realized as they sped down the highway that the bump was just a soft shoulder of the road.
The brown dragon landed on the ridge height of Fort Weyr and Robinton slid down the soft shoulder.