bosom
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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
Agnew describes two of her children “literally swinging off her long golden hair” and one that clings to her bosom for every moment of the four hours she spends with the family.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024
Not it’s up to a black woman to rock us in her bosom and heal our wounds,” wrote an X user.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
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
He did not stop to count it, but thrust it into his bosom and went out of the open gate of peace and across the small back streets to his hut.
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
Their frocks are florid flights of fancy, they mix fairytale with farce - and their bosoms are decidedly false.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2012
They hugged the memories of illnesses to their bosoms.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing bosom
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 1
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