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How to use bosom in a sentence

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Bosom means the breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). Example: “Her once firm bosom began to sag in her thirties.”

Examples of bosom by meaning

nounThe breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).

  • Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion?1964, Philip K. Dick, “FOUR”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers...

nounA breast, one of a woman's breasts.

  • The baby was crammed against one of her bosoms.2009, Emma Smith, The Great Western Beach, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 241

adjectiveIn a very close relationship.

  • Creecy of the navy, who has been detailed to the aerial experiments at the fort, and who was a bosom companion of young Selfridge, was brokenhearted.1908 September 18, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in New York Times, Describing the death of Thomas Etholen Selfridge, first airplane...

verbTo conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

  • Beyond were the pines, and a rugged road, flint-edged, full of dips and rises, turns and twists, hovering on edges, or bosoming itself in deep rock-strewn cuts.1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers

More sentences with bosom

  • Her once firm bosom began to sag in her thirties.From the entry sag
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Abraham's bosom.From the entry Abraham's bosom
  • She has a very ample bosom.From the entry ample
  • Like the contemporary urban myth, tales of stomach frogs and "bosom serpents" persisted because they have truthiness.2013, Mary Roach, chapter 8, in Gulp. From the entry truthiness
  • But she found herself moving forward, heading toward Kate while Rosie rutsched against her own bosom.2008, Beverly Lewis, The Forbidden (The Courtship of Nellie Fisher Book #2), Bethany House, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry rutsch
  • When he got to their nary, Olga was hysterical, clutching Anastasia to her bosom.2005, Anatole Kurdsjuk, The Long Walk Home with Miracles Along the Way. From the entry Nastia
  • The video shows a lap dancer burying the head of a 49ers' staffer in her bosom.2005 June 8, "49ers acknowledge another embarrassing video, USA Today (24 July 2011). From the entry lap dancer
  • Vanucci even kissed me and hugged me close to her ample, warm, tomato-saucy bosom.1998, Patricia Johnson Eilola, A Finntown of the Heart, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., →ISBN, page 42. From the entry tomato-saucy
  • Sounds like a southern romance, Fabio drooling over Charlene's heaving bosom.1997, Roderick Peter MacIntyre, Takes: Stories for Young Adults, Thistledown Press, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry Charlene
  • The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise. From the entry menarche
  • It is noteworthy that few writers choose to live in the bosom of their dear public.1935, Southwest Review, volumes 10-21, page 84. From the entry pulpeteer
  • Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14. From the entry orgulous
  • His eyes widened at the sight of her generous bosoms.2013, Jon Sharpe [credited; ghostwritten], New Mexico Madman (The Trailsman; 376), Penguin Random House, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry jahoobies
  • Josephine folded her arms across her bosom, satisfied with herself.2008, Yolanda McVey, Love's Secrets, →ISBN. From the entry afterlook
  • This was all luscious bosom. gold embossed letters. and tanned male chestage, set on a Renaissance pirate ship.2007, M. E. Rabb, Cures for Heartbreak, page 109. From the entry chestage
  • Her green velveteen dress strained to contain a vast bosom as, arms akimbo she checked the activities. ‘What a lovely lady.2007, John Dyson, Silver Galore, Anstey, Leics: Linford, F. A. Thorpe (Publishing), published 2008, page 46. From the entry milkjug
  • Campaigning together frequently this fall, the former rivals became, if not bosom buddies, closer than either ever expected.2004 November 15, Matthew Cooper, “2004 Election: Candidates In the Wings”, in Time. From the entry bosom buddy
  • Beautiful, and teeming infinitely with life, even when there was no ship asail upon its cresting bosom—like now.2000, J. N. Williamson, Frights of Fancy, page 234. From the entry asail
  • Although they were far from bosom buddies, she liked Mary Jackson as much as anyone on the street.1996, Stephen King, The Regulators, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry bosom buddy
  • Her impressive bosom rose inside a plum-colored brocade dress.1992, Stella Cameron, Only by Your Touch, Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 64–65. From the entry unpracticed
  • The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry incubate
  • She giggled furiously, the bosom in violent action.1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New…. From the entry to death
  • When I first knew Irma, her bosom plus her plump shoulder blades surrounded her head like a circular shelf.1943 November 24, Mary Hampton, “There Goes Irma”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 173, number 28,128, Sacramento, Calif., page 13, column 2. From the entry plumpitude
  • Shall his bosom faint, If drunken Censure belch out sour breath From Hatred's surfeit on his labour's front?1922, Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams, The Jonson Allusion-book. From the entry befilth
  • They fell away voluminously into the capaciousness of her bosom.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry Mother Hubbard
  • Jerry was Morel’s bosom friend, and Mrs.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry bosom friend
  • Tall and lissom, she was sheathed from the bosom downwards in flamingo silk, and she was liberally festooned with emeralds.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry lissom
  • But these methods of the Chāṇakyas—the Macchiavellis of India—unfortunately always carry the seeds of destruction in their bosom.1908, The Theosophist, volume 29, Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, →OCLC, page 722. From the entry Chanakya
  • You're blind to the blue Pacific water and glaring sun as your entire face is buried in Sofia's bosom—you're motorboating on a motorboat!2013, "19 Most Lustable Celebs", VIBE, April/May 2013, page 84. From the entry motorboat
  • I'm blond and blue-eyed and twenty-five, and my legs are strong and my bosom is substantial, and I have a waspy waistline.2001, Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark. From the entry waspy
  • Elsie wheezed, laughter swelling her bosom.1988, Elizabeth Oldfield, Beware of Married Men, page 47. From the entry wheeze
  • The experience was something like going before the Daughters of the American Revolution and advocating communism; but then, doughty matronly bosoms always intimidate me.1964, Japan Quarterly. From the entry doughty
  • She shall not dodge me though she hide in unfathomed waters, or in the earth's bosom, or in lonely woods, or on crags!”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35. From the entry unfathomed
  • Then, feeling the fat hands caressing her reluctant bosom, listening dutifully to the rich, plummy voice, she realized finally what marriage to the King meant.1948, Michael Glenne, Catherine Howard: The Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen, page 137. From the entry plummy
  • Her classic robe is folded tunicwise over the bosom, her dense hair falls loosely on her shoulders and is cut square across the brow.1922, Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Manon Phlipon Roland: early years. From the entry tunicwise
  • Rising, she placed herself on the lower step of the altar, and throwing open her bosom , said: “ Then by God's token, kneel.”1906, David Tod Gilliam, The Rose Croix, page 365. From the entry God's token

Meaning of bosom

  1. noun The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
  2. noun The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
  3. noun The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.

Full definition of bosom

Questions about bosom in a sentence

How do you use bosom in a sentence?
Bosom is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Her once firm bosom began to sag in her thirties.”
What is a short sentence with bosom?
“Elsie wheezed, laughter swelling her bosom.”
What does bosom mean?
Bosom means the breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).

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