Synonyms
Examples for "nape"
Examples for "nape"
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Rhys stared at the animal, the fine hairs on his nape rising.
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And they cuffed him, till the nape of his neck was red.
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The nape of her neck formed a right angle with her vertebrae.
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The new cap also has room to pack hair at the nape.
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Known here as querrequerre, the bird has a powder-blue tuft and nape.
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A sister of the Peruvian boy referred to had a still larger growth, extending from the nucha all over the back.
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He thought he had the world by the scruff of the neck.
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But there were no real sustained peaks, precious few all-time scruff-of-the-neck performances.
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Magiere snapped, lunging at the hound to snatch him by the scruff.
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Bizarrely, he held a spitting cat by the scruff of the neck.
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The huge hand holding him by the scruff of the neck tightened.
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I pulled him to his feet by the scruff of his neck.
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Then fatigue sprang and seized me by the scruff of the neck.
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She was grabbed by the scruff of her neck and hauled upward.
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But sanity grabbed the scruff of my neck and turned me around.
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A brilliant book ultimately about the scruff appeal of any city.
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At the same moment back by the scruff of my neck.
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They've got the whole dominion by the scruff of the neck.
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Here is a scruff-neck city of sewers, gas works and dumps.
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Most of the time, I am a bit of a scruff.
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Held so, by the scruff of his neck, he was not a beauty.
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Michael rubbed at the scruff on the end of his chin.
