What is "torsos"

Usage examples of "torsos".

Its light played over their torsos, illuminating the curve of their breasts, the drape of bead necklaces, a pair of coarse, auburn braids hanging over the shoulder of one and reaching to that place where woman hips flowed away into a mare's body.

They had striped their torsos as well and decorated their faces with chalky lines and ocher dots.

It was dim and stuffy within the inner chamber, which was lit by four slits cut into the tent's roof and by two lamps formed in the shape of lamiassinuous creatures with the heads and torsos of beautiful women and the hindquarters of snakes.

They had the torsos of men but the hindquarters of fish, ending in a massively strong tail.

It was dim and stuffy within the inner chamber, which was lit by four slits cut into the tent's roof and by two lamps formed in the shape of lamias—sinuous creatures with the heads and torsos of beautiful women and the hindquarters of snakes.

The wounds on all four were completely clean and visible in obscene detail: there was a pathologist's note on the French killings insisting that it was the condition in which the torsos had been found at the scene, not cleaning that had been carried out by the surgeons prior to examination.

Snow clung to their leg­gings and to the portion of their upper torsos that faced the wind.

No hominid ever went there, aside from the permanent grave tenders, whose faces and upper torsos were painted a chalky white and who were regarded as pari­ahs, spending all their lives in the forbidden burial zone.

She vanished into the woods, came back with gobs of mud, and emerged from a hut with a concoction of bright ocher, which she proceeded to smear on the upper torsos of one group.

The hominids didn’t appear to be tired, and looking at them as objective specimens, Matt was again struck by their superior physiques—the squat legs as strong as columns, the low-slung torsos, the huge shoulders and thick hands, the brows that served as anchors for their massive jaw mus­cles.

They had no windpipe, no nasal slits, elongated torsos, an odd protuberance on top of those torsos, and only half the expected number of fingers at the end of each leg.

They seem to be divided into male and female, like us, and their genitalia seems to be arranged in roughly the same manner—although the females have odd growths on their torsos whose purpose I’ve yet to determine.

They were given bright red-and-white patterned skintight uniforms that fit their torsos and supported their breasts, the effect of which, combining the limbs with the painted areas, was to hide any obvious organic skin from view.

Very powerful-looking, with thick-muscled arms and torsos, but a good head shorter on average than adult females.

I didn't want to be on this cross, suffering, waiting – seeing the gleaming torsos of the others, their primed cocks – no, this was too much, I thought.