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How to use breastplate in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Breastplate means a piece of armor that covers the chest. Example: “He wears a Thracian-style helmet that protects most of his head and face, and a breastplate or "cuirass" covering his back and chest, both made of bronze.”

Examples of breastplate by meaning

nounA piece of armor that covers the torso; a cuirass, the breast- (front) and back-plate, taken together as a unit.

  • He wears a Thracian-style helmet that protects most of his head and face, and a breastplate or "cuirass" covering his back and chest, both made of bronze.2002, Bruce LaFontaine, Warriors Through the Ages, page 6
  • A massive hand grabbed the back of his breastplate and pulled him back.2011, Tracy Hickman, Song of the Dragon, page 41

More sentences with breastplate

  • It makes the whole breastplate take the shock, and not just his arm.2015, Deborah Chester, Time Trap, Diversion Books, →ISBN. From the entry grapper
  • The gunners no longer wore armplates while the lancers wore only breastplate and shoulder pieces.2011 11, Ruth Turner Wilcox, Five Centuries of American Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry armplate
  • The breastplate was now usually globular in shape with attached tassets.2007, Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry cannon
  • His bronze breastplate was decorated in silver, and he carried his sword hanging from a chain-mail baldric.2001, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, chapter 27, in Iain Halliday, transl., Alexander: The Sands of Ammon […], London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry baldric
  • Clad in the famous buff leather coat, breastplate and 'lobster-tailed pot' helmet, the New Model soldier is instantly recognizable to us.2015, David Clark, A Brief Guide To British Battlefields: From the Roman Occupation to Culloden, Robinson, →ISBN. From the entry lobster-tailed pot
  • He removed and donned, with a servant's assistance, his golden breastplate and backplate, cannon, fan-plate, garde-faude, and great helm.2009 05, A. Jarrell Hayes, The Laroarian Conflict, A. Jarrell Hayes, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry garde-faude
  • For heavy field use a reinforcing breastplate was sometimes added, together with a wrapper over the upper bevor.2008, Christopher Gravett, Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600, page 233. From the entry bevor
  • And these are the garments that they shall make: breastplate and ephod and robe and checkwork tunic, turban and sash.2008, Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, page 473. From the entry checkwork
  • The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager…. From the entry ratty
  • The grate rested against the knight's breastplate and relieved the hand and arm of the full shock of contact.1980, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 16, page 683. From the entry grate
  • The boiled shirt and piqué waistcoat seemed to hold him upright and stiffen his moral fibre like a breastplate.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 17”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry dinner jacket
  • Clearly defined are the quatrefoil piercings in the lower front that were used for attaching the helm, by means of a chain and bar, to the mamelières of the breastplate.1920, Guy F. Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. From the entry mamelière

Meaning of breastplate

  1. noun A piece of armor that covers the chest.
  2. noun A piece of armor that covers the torso; a cuirass, the breast- (front) and back-plate, taken together as a unit.
  3. noun A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.

Full definition of breastplate

Questions about breastplate in a sentence

How do you use breastplate in a sentence?
Breastplate is used as a noun. For example: “He wears a Thracian-style helmet that protects most of his head and face, and a breastplate or "cuirass" covering his back and chest, both made of bronze.”
What is a short sentence with breastplate?
“The breastplate was now usually globular in shape with attached tassets.”
What does breastplate mean?
Breastplate means a piece of armor that covers the chest.

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