BOSOM in a Sentence

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213 example sentences for BOSOM, such as:

1. She held the child to her bosom.
2. A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
3. She swept him a low curtsy and a dazzling smile and he bowed, one hand on his frilled bosom.
4. He smothered a grin, as from the corner of his eye he saw her bosom heave with silent wrath.
5. He looked pointedly at Mrs. Elsing's flat bosom, grinned suddenly and, bowing, made his exit.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOSOM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bosom
 v.  hide in one's bosom
 n.  either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She sat down wearily, tucking one foot under her, and her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  After all she was not ashamed of her neck and arms and bosom, even if it was not correct to show them in the morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Plump Miss Pittypat was teetering excitedly on tiny feet, one hand pressed to her copious bosom to still her fluttering heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  He bowed and sauntered off, leaving her with her bosom heaving with impotent rage and indignation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  If only she were Scarlett O'Hara again, out there on the floor in an apple-green dress with dark-green velvet ribbons dangling from her bosom and tuberoses in her black hair--she'd lead that reel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She swept him a low curtsy and a dazzling smile and he bowed, one hand on his frilled bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  She unlocked the cellaret and stood for a moment with the bottle and glass pressed to her bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  He looked pointedly at Mrs. Elsing's flat bosom, grinned suddenly and, bowing, made his exit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  They seemed to flood her chest, and they were hot tears that burned under her bosom, but they would not flow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  He smothered a grin, as from the corner of his eye he saw her bosom heave with silent wrath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  That night she sat on the front porch with Gerald's letter in her bosom where she could touch it occasionally and bring Tara and Ellen closer to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  She sprawled back against a pillar of the porch and with a shaking hand unbuttoned her basque halfway down her bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  His dress was as debonaire as if he were going to a ball, well-tailored white linen coat and trousers, embroidered gray watered-silk waistcoat and a hint of ruffle on his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  She held the child to her bosom.
2  A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
3  She buried her face in his bosom, she clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all too jeering laughter.