How do you use the word "neck" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "neck" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "neck": The horses are coming down the track and it's neck and neck. My neck snapped when I did a headstand.

Neck Meaning

/ˈnɛk/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.

nounThe corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

Sentence Examples

The horses are coming down the track and it's neck and neck.

My neck snapped when I did a headstand.

He tied a scarf around his neck.

CEFR Practice Quiz

She wore a warm scarf around her ____ to protect from the cold wind.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She wore a beautiful silk scarf wrapped loosely around her ____.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it." — 2019 October 15, ZA/UM, Robert Kurvitz, quoting You, Disco Elysium, →OCLC:

"Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes." — 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:

"Shorty throw neck like a geese She make me speak Portuguese" — 2016, “Pimptations”, performed by Smino:

"She drop neck for a check and a paystub" — 2018, “Florida Thang”, in The South Got Something To Say, performed by Pouya:

"The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands" — 1837, R. A. R., The Everyday Book, page 1169:

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