[ US /ˈbɹɛst/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈɛst/ ]
VERB
  1. meet at breast level
    The runner breasted the tape
  2. reach the summit (of a mountain)
    Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
    They breasted the mountain
  3. confront bodily
    breast the storm
NOUN
  1. the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
    he beat his breast in anger
  2. the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
  3. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
  4. meat carved from the breast of a fowl
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How To Use breast In A Sentence

  • Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
  • Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience. 
  • I had ductal carcinoma in situ in the left breast and the right, just, atypia which are cells that you want to keep an eye on. CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2006
  • RITA-award-winning author and WU contributor Barbara Samuel is auctioning off some critiques on eBay in order to raise money for the AVON breast cancer walk in late June. Writer Unboxed » 2008 » June
  • If you are to have any chance of success, you need to pore over balance sheets, crunch the right numbers and keep abreast of company news. Times, Sunday Times
  • In her new role she will help to develop the midwives' public health role, with increased support for breastfeeding and encouraging mothers-to-be to stop smoking.
  • I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
  • Instead of talking about the mechanical superiority of their latest cars, manufacturers hired the sexiest, perkiest breasted young women they could find to writhe, lean and lick their lips next to their new products. Judith Acosta: How Marketers Capitalize On Your Fear: Confessions Of An Ex-Ad-Woman
  • As Hayden recalled the velvety softness of her breast against his palm, a pang of guilt stabbed him. One Night Of Scandal
  • Roll the chicken breasts in flour.
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