Moreover, its breastbone is too small to support the huge pectoral muscles a bird this size would need to fly. From Wordnik.com. [Dodos at AMNH] Reference
I think of my mother and her breastbone snapped back. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
She wears a diamond cross that covers her breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [Gerade rechts zum Volkszimmer] Reference
"At the back to my spine; in front to my breastbone.". From Wordnik.com. [Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City] Reference
Pack the legs large end downward, alongside the breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [Every Step in Canning] Reference
Put in pan breastbone up; dust with salt, pepper and flour. From Wordnik.com. [The New Dr. Price Cookbook] Reference
One day Kelly put her finger on Anna's breastbone and snorted. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Garden] Reference
He drove it upward just below the breastbone, striking the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
To avoid hitting breastbone or rib, Daoud had aimed for the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The bayonets hissed as they crashed through breastbone and backbone. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
Merritt rocked heavily on the other's breastbone, almost stifling him. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
A deep and sickening pain throbbed from my breastbone down my left arm. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
Put the heel of your hand on his breastbone in the center of his chest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009] Reference
The kid saw her eyes and held a tentative hand above his breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [Caitlin in the Y2K Museum] Reference
When I think about my father, an ache rises like dough under my breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
It is situated around the windpipe, behind the upper part of the breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
And as the heart lies back of the breastbone it never gets into his fighting. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Be careful not to break the skin that's attached at the center of the breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [The Perdue Chicken Cookbook] Reference
Begin on the belly below the breastbone, and cut down the middle quite to the vent. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Why can we tell whether a fowl is young by pressing on the point of the breastbone?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The governor broke a leg, 11 ribs, his breastbone and a vertebrae in his lower back. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007] Reference
The 7 - month-old twins from Olympia were born joined from the breastbone to the pelvis. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2002] Reference
That thing beneath her prominent breastbone pained her violently, forced her on to speak. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Singe, empty, and split chicken in half; take breastbone out and sprinkle salt and pepper over. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Crisco] Reference
Simply start pushing on someone's chest right between -- right in the middle of the breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009] Reference
Sometimes there is swelling about the wrist and forearm, and the breastbone may appear sunken in. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
"I saw a lot of men outside," Rachel told the others, her heart battering against her breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
The upper part of the second tube begins with the mouth and is formed by the ribs and breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The upper cavity, or chest, is a bony enclosure formed by the breastbone, the ribs, and the spine. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The sternum, or breastbone, is a long, flat, narrow bone forming the middle front wall of the chest. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
It is fastened at one end to the breastbone and the first rib, and, at the other, to the shoulder blade. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
His breastbone and collarbone, and he also fractured a vertebra in his lower back and cut open his head. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007] Reference
Cut in sharp at the point of the breastbone, turning the knife and cutting away the wishbone with the meat. From Wordnik.com. [Every Step in Canning] Reference
The bones of my trunk are my spine, my ribs, my breastbone, my two shoulder blades, and my two collar bones. From Wordnik.com. [Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City] Reference
Either of two slender bones extending from the upper part of the sternum (breastbone) to the shoulder. coaptation. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
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