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Meanings of breastbone in English

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The flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs.

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        Usage of breastbone in English
        1
        Liett thrust down her breastbone several times, so hard that ribs cracked.
        Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
        2
        Without meaning to, Anna Pelli Cognani raised one hand to her breastbone.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        3
        At length she coughed, pounded a bit on her breastbone, and replied:
        Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
        4
        Odion plunged the blade into Njeri's breastbone and pried her ribcage open.
        Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories
        5
        Margaret Adkins had been ripped open from her breastbone to her pubis.
        Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
        6
        The gray one shattered Schedrin's breastbone and gnawed in after the heart.
        The Wolf’s Hour
        7
        The cold fear spread through my chest and curled around my breastbone.
        Fatal Voyage
        8
        She dropped her fork and napkin on the table, her breastbone smarting.
        The notorious scoundrel
        9
        Just to the left of your breastbone, a little above the diaphragm.
        News.com.au
        10
        Every heartbeat pinched her breastbone, her every muscle was tight and thrumming.
        The notorious scoundrel
        11
        She was very tired, the tiredness like a weight against her breastbone.
        The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
        12
        Owen had cut the cartilages to separate the ribs from the breastbone.
        Another life
        13
        He kicked her just below the breastbone, knocking her on her back.
        The stand
        14
        She pats her breastbone to denote the rapid beating of a heart.
        Those who save us
        15
        His head was heavy and his chin had sunk to his breastbone.
        Night of Knives
        16
        It surged up inside him, just under his breastbone-soft ,wet ,andfull.
        Silent screams
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        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common