Breastbone

Moreover, its breastbone is too small to support the huge pectoral muscles a bird this size would need to fly. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The joint where the wing connects to the breastbone is another good place to check the temperature. ❋ Daisy Martinez (2010)

The woman held her palms up and smiled and the man had his arms out to her, his hands like hooks, and protruding point-outward from his breastbone was a crooked knife blade with a wetness on it. ❋ Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 (1953)

Both he and I have Ehlers-Danlos traits, the breastbone was the most severe of his visible traits whereas I just bend and disjoint in really Frosted up ways. ❋ Whistler P. McManus (2010)

This is largely due to the tump-line, which is laid over the head, while persons unused to it must have shoulder-straps in addition, which are not as good, because the "breastbone," so called, is not strong enough. ❋ Frederic Remington (1885)

He held me against him as I grew used to the sensation of being filled by his cock, my body pressed against his, breasts to breastbone. ❋ Jill Myles (2011)

Fatigue suddenly made her legs wobbly as the warmth that covered her scalp slowly spilled down her arms and along her back and breastbone, flowing down her limbs until the tips of her fingers and toes tingled. ❋ L. A. Banks (2011)

He moved back toward the door, leaving me there, absently rubbing a hand over my aching breastbone. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

After she felt a sweat drop rolling from her chin to her breastbone she decided to take a cold shower. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Without a valve replacement, half the patients with severe disease die within two years — but as many as 30% of patients are too sick, or unwilling, to risk an operation than involves cracking open the breastbone, stopping the heart and putting patients on a heart-lung machine, said Ralph Brindis, president of the American College of Cardiology. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They cut the chicken right down the breastbone, and then flatten them between two bamboo sticks and roast them over hot coals. ❋ Will (2009)

It is over my breastbone and represents a number of things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I thrust my foot against his breastbone even as my other foot kicked up. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

Vittorio suddenly felt a distant thump in his own chest: his implant telling him that Sarsen had just been hit hard above the breastbone. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

The chest is cracked open, heart vessels are cleared, the breastbone is wired together, eventually knits, and there's a marathon at the finish line (another chapter header). ❋ Arthur Rosenfeld (2010)

I know about the effusion that had built up in the sack her heart rests in, and I had pulled the drain from the hole just to the left of her breastbone when the liquid had been taken off. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

I understand that feeling, here, resonating under the breastbone. ❋ Jane Yolen (2010)