Collocations for "spine"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "spine" in context.
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spine
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- broke his spine
- has an injured spine
- get your spine aligned (by a chiropractor)
- the [lower, upper, cervical, lumbar, thoracic] spine
- have surgery on your spine
- need (to have) an operation on your spine
- at the base of my spine
- felt a tingle up her spine
- made his spine tingle
- the spine of the book
- the book's spine
- the spine of the team
- figurative: he has no spine
- a spine-tingling [experience, massage]
- a spine-breaking [fall, crash]
'spine' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):