What is "breastbones"

Usage examples of "breastbones".

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.

Most of the crones were snoring away, their heads nodding on their breastbones, dribbling softly onto bibs ornamented with green and gold berries and leaves.

Both wore beige, linen suits that were stylishly wrinkled, their yellow, silk shirts open to their breastbones.