What is "breastbone"

Usage examples of "breastbone".

He was slender, and very tall for a cosmonaut, much taller than Esther: she barely came up to his breastbone.

Upon this makeshift stake Li had been impaled through back and breastbone, as if he had been hurled there by a titanic force.

She had been murdered in the bedroom, where she was also disemboweled from the breastbone to the pelvic area.

More expensive than any two or three occas, this was an embryo halted and kept halted at four months in the womb, while what were becoming arms, wrists, and fingers were encouraged to shape wing-struts instead, and anchorages of muscle were enlarged in the breastbone.

The point of the old nail had shifted, driven against his breastbone as if striking for the heart.

While we waited for the finding and unharbouring of the hart, while I held myself in readiness for the chase and listened for the baying of the scent, while we followed the ruses and doublings of the quarry as he ran back on his own tracks to strengthen the scent then bounded sideways to confuse the hounds or entered and left the streamlets that run through the woods so as to break his traces, while I galloped with the others and followed the sound of the horn and shouted with all the power of my lungs and ducked the low branches, amidst all this hullabaloo and headlong career, I still drifted on the dark lake, still heard the words of love and promise she had given me, still felt the ring where it lay threaded against my breastbone.

He delayeth only till his fingers be knit together behind the neck of the accursed Demon to draw the head of him forward until the bones of the neck or the breastbone be bursten asunder.

He grunted as he began a backswing with the axe calculated to split the Colonel up from the groin to the breastbone, then gasped as a pain exploded behind his knee.

I should have died even then but for that as my sword was tight wedged in the breastbone of a Dator of the First Born.

The single bullet took Jehu below the breastbone, angling sideways and ripping out most of his lungs before tearing chunks of muscle from the pumping walls of his heart.

They stubbed out mosquitoes and fanned away the powdery wingbeats of moths and sipped from ice-filled glasses and held the cold, sweating glasses against their faces and breastbones and stomachs.

Off to one side were four males dressed in earth-toned robes, their hair braided, pulled forward and knotted over their breastbones.

And the true, complete females are diploid—except for a group of haploid structures just below their breastbones, the egg-receiver, or oviceptor, we call it.

A silver plate had been slipped over the part of the bridle resting on the horses' foreheads, and that had two chains hanging down to connect with the chain running along the horses' breastbones.

They looked like the men I had seen outside the Angler's Bar, the men who had stoned me big middle-aged, roughs, with bellies hanging over their belts and plaid arid tan shirts open past their breastbones.