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sternum
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  • Wells watched Clarke stride off into the woods, feeling as if she'd punched through his sternum and torn away a chunk of his heart.†   (source)
  • The tip struck the soft part of Czigo's abdomen just below the sternum, slammed upward with terrible force over the liver and through the diaphragm to crush the right ventricle of the man's heart.†   (source)
  • Frank felt a subtle vibration in his own body, like a tuning fork pressed against his sternum.†   (source)
  • The sternum he split using his knife.†   (source)
  • He cocked his chin into his sternum, stepped toward the ball, flung his leg forward, and connected, firing a low, sharp shot to the goalie's right.†   (source)
  • The sternum, she remembered, from the days when she had studied bones in order to better understand David and his work.†   (source)
  • When she woke up the sun was shining in the window and she had a barbarous stitch in the shape of an arc that began at her crotch and ended at her sternum.†   (source)
  • The sound of the man's sternum and ribs breaking, the squeal of the door's hinges as they continued to stress over the obstacle keeping the door open—Mark felt a rush of horror at himself.†   (source)
  • Putting the crosshairs on Mr. RPG's upper sternum, I squeezed the trigger on the most important shot of my life.†   (source)
  • Calvin held the forefeet open and up while Omar pierced the curling hair at the point where the sternum lay.†   (source)
  • You can see here the blade pierced the juncture between the fourth rib and the sternum on the way in.†   (source)
  • Ghosh listened, his eyes taking in the blister marks on the sternum which said the native healer had been consulted; he noted the thick speech and guessed that the uvula had probably been recently amputated on a second visit to the same charlatan.†   (source)
  • TWAIN, NOTEBOOK June Claire would be cut in half, her sternum buzzed open with a saw and held open with a metal spreader so that she could be made, literally, heartless—and this was not what terrified me the most.†   (source)
  • Glancing down, she saw a slim hand, pressed protectively against her sternum.†   (source)
  • He punched Connor hard below the sternum.†   (source)
  • "The plate they used to put my sternum back together," he replied cheerfully.†   (source)
  • Dr. Mac Perry presses down on the president's sternum to restart the heart, even as the electrocardiogram machine shows a flat line.†   (source)
  • He then punched me in the sternum and slapped me twice across the face.†   (source)
  • My low and narrow hips wanted to be lost in her width, the chute of her sternum my sole guide to the one place where we came in the same basic size and shape and flavor: that good piece, the mouth.†   (source)
  • "A little off the sternum, sir?" my father asks him, and Mr. Banerji brightens at the word.†   (source)
  • They looked anxiously at Alessandro and then at a score of lesser servants standing against the walls, each carrying a knobbed cane that came up to his sternum.†   (source)
  • Stem bent to offer him a hand, but instead of accepting it, Denny lunged at him from a half-standing position and butted Stem in the sternum.†   (source)
  • The damage amounted to a bruised sternum, a few bruised ribs, and a two-inch gash above the orbital bone that surrounded my left eye.†   (source)
  • I paused when I uncovered the next card, and my heart leaped forward and banged against my sternum and asked to be let out.†   (source)
  • During the heart transplant, the surgeon used a saw to cut through his sternum.
  • I jab his sternum with my index finger, digging in my fingernail.†   (source)
  • Marcus presses his index finger to my sternum, in the gap between my collarbones, and leans over me.†   (source)
  • Then he placed a final strap across her sternum, just above her breasts.†   (source)
  • Jason's heart hammered against his sternum.†   (source)
  • He pressed the tip of his golden sword against Percy's sternum.†   (source)
  • I kept walking, feeling like I had an ax sticking out of my sternum.†   (source)
  • I swear I could feel it pushing against my sternum from across the room.†   (source)
  • Jason stumbled, looking at the thin line of blood down his sternum.†   (source)
  • Mark sent Otto reeling backward with a punch to the sternum.†   (source)
  • With a broad grin, he twisted his hand over his sternum in the elves' gesture of fealty and bowed.†   (source)
  • His titular beard was thick and well groomed and hung to the middle of his sternum.†   (source)
  • Eragon touched his lips and then twisted his right hand over his sternum, as Arya had taught him.†   (source)
  • The flashlight flew out of his hand, and before he could even process what was happening, a rock-hard fist collided with his sternum.†   (source)
  • Paul took the man beneath the sternum with a straight-hand jab, sidestepped and chopped the base of his neck, relieving him of the weapon as he fell.†   (source)
  • When he got to the stump end he steadied himself by gripping a hornlike pair of limbs and settled his sternum against the branch and lay outstretched, a swimmer among the boughs.†   (source)
  • He lost his footing trying to reseat the post; the hole had filled with mud and suddenly he found himself lying flat in the water and wet to the sternum.†   (source)
  • At the last moment, Eragon twisted, tensed his arms and chest, and rammed his sore shoulder into the man's sternum.†   (source)
  • Kelli touched her own sternum, where the tip of the knife had exited when Annabeth stabbed her in the back.†   (source)
  • Next she showed Eragon how to twist his right hand and place it over his sternum in a curious gesture.†   (source)
  • The first swift cut at the sternum was for an instant strangely unbloody, and I could see the quivering heart and the pliant sacs of the lungs, still alive as the pig was for a few moments longer.†   (source)
  • She came up only to his sternum, and her hands were so small and delicate that she reminded him of the sweet and innocent mice in children's books.†   (source)
  • A cold tingle like eucalyptus oil spread across his sternum, but as soon as Bob lifted his hand, the relief stopped.†   (source)
  • Your sternum will be opened with a saw.†   (source)
  • Eragon slipped past Arya's guard with an adroit bit of footwork and a flick of his wrist, which resulted in him slashing Arya across her chest, from shoulder to sternum.†   (source)
  • "Ah, the sternum," he says, and I know they have entered together the shared world of biology, which offers refuge from the real, awkward world of manners and silences we're sitting in at the moment.†   (source)
  • You should have been an Irish priest in the twelfth century with a shillelagh in your hand and a cause in your heart, standing in the chill surf of the Irish Sea, braining and smashing the sternums of English invaders.†   (source)
  • He felt as if a block of ice were melting just behind his sternum—a frozen chunk of fear he'd gotten so used to he didn't even think about it until it was gone.†   (source)
  • Roran looked where Carn was pointing and saw, hidden amid the hair and the gore on his breast, a long, deep cut that started in themiddle of his right chest muscle, ran across his sternum, and ended just below his left nipple.†   (source)
  • Without pause, Roran struck the man in the center of his red tunic, cracking his sternum and felling the gasping, mortally wounded soldier.†   (source)
  • Then Vanir did what Eragon had never expected: the elf twisted his uninjured hand in the gesture of fealty, placed it upon his sternum, and bowed.†   (source)
  • The third he left to Halmar, instead bounding over to the soldier whose sternum he had broken and whom he had left for dead.†   (source)
  • He touched the first two fingers of his right hand to his lips and, also in the ancient language, said, "May good fortune rule over you, Oromis-elda," and then he twisted his hand over his sternum in the gesture of courtesy and respect the elves used.†   (source)
  • With a volume on embryology propped at the bottom of his sternum, our young adventurer followed the development of the organism from the moment when the sperm, out in front of many just like itself and driven onward by the whipping motion of its taii, crashed headfirst into the gelatin coating of the egg and bored its way through to what is called the mount of conception, a conical protrusion in the outer rim of the egg's protoplasm formed in reaction to the approach of the sperm.†   (source)
  • The cheek pressed against my sternum was warm and slightly sticky with sweat, but the back and arms I could touch were as cold as my thighs, chilled by the winter air gusting in on us.†   (source)
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