bosom
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Leaders' successes or failures are rarely based on the perfect plans they often clutch to their bosom on the day they walk into No 10.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Our garbage, he’s convinced, “speaks to us,” and in its honesty he finds the relief that keeps him sane in the bosom of squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“And to me, philosophically, that makes sense. I float between desperately wanting stability and wanting glorious freedom. From being at the bosom of my family to being a lone wolf.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The most famous of these, perhaps, is the Greek myth in which Hera pushes away the baby Heracles from her bosom, and her breast milk spills from horizon to horizon.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 4, 2023
In his bosom lay the slight, skeleton-like body of his girl child, and he looked downinto the delicate bony face, and into the sharp, sad eyes that watched him unceasingly from his breast.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."
From Fox News ● Feb. 21, 2022
Many of us have serious back problems, often undiagnosed, and/or chronic aches and pains that are connected to our bosoms.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2020
They hugged me and my jeep driver and pinned French tricolors on us, and left us exhausted, with our bosoms covered with emblems and ribbons.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2019
And she didn’t make immense contributions to charity or clasp stricken and hungry children to her bosoms, like Angelina Jolie.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2016
“This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing bosom
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 1
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