BREAST in a Sentence

Learn BREAST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

234 example sentences for BREAST, such as:

1. Her mother died of breast cancer.
2. The sword bore through her breast.
3. I kept the list in my breast pocket.
4. Doctors found a cancer on her breast.
5. She was feeding a baby at the breast.

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 Meanings and Examples of BREAST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
breast
 v.  confront bodily
 v.  reach the summit (of a mountain)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As I fixed my eyes on the child, I saw something glittering on his breast.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
2  But, besides, I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  "They mostly do," said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast, as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
4  But he clasped both his hands over his breast, and cast his eyes towards the zenith.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
5  Her mother, with the scarlet letter on her breast, glittering in its fantastic embroidery, had long been a familiar object to the townspeople.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
6  Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
7  One little gray bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
8  The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
9  At length, assuming a singular air of authority, Pearl stretched out her hand, with the small forefinger extended, and pointing evidently towards her mother's breast.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
10  The minister stood white and speechless, with one hand on the Hebrew Scriptures, and the other spread upon his breast.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
11  With a convulsive motion, he tore away the ministerial band from before his breast.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
12  But her hesitation was only for an instant, though long enough to display a scarlet letter on her breast.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
13  All within Elinor's breast was satisfaction, silent and strong.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
14  If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
15  Having despatched The Avenger to the coffee-house for an addition to the dinner, I felt that I must open my breast that very evening to my friend and chum.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  She was feeding a baby at the breast.
2  Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
3  Cancer of the breast in young women is uncommon.
4  Most of the women employees have now been screened for breast cancer.
5  The drugs are being used experimentally on patients suffering from breast cancer.
6  Her mother died of breast cancer.
7  Doctors found a cancer on her breast.
8  The girl clutched her doll to her breast.
9  A robin is easy to identify because of its red breast.
10  Symptoms of PMS include breast tenderness and a craving for sweet food.
11  I kept the list in my breast pocket.
12  Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
13  Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
14  The sword bore through her breast.
15  They laid him on the floor and put one large Bible under his head, and opened another one and spread it on his breast; but they tore open his shirt first, and I seen where one of the bullets went in.