torso
Example Sentences
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She was carrying a book about the size of her entire torso.
From Literature
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The naked torso of Christ is that of an antique god, an elegantly idealized, robust body.
Yet the discussion on Tuesday is going to be about "torso" offside.
From BBC
An alternate suggestion has been to use the torso as the reference point for offside, ignoring the feet and the head.
From BBC
The remains of four arms sprout symmetrically from the shoulders of a gracefully elongated 11th-century torso, listed as Vishnu, possibly.
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