Breastbones

Trim all the fat and skin from the breastbones and backbones of the 3 chickens and, with a heavy knife or a cleaver, whack the bones into manageable pieces. ❋ Daisy Martinez (2010)

I turn the birds over onto their backs and blow on their bellies to part their feathers along their tiny breastbones, looking first for signs of new feathers, evidence of their molt, and then for their fat and muscle scores. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

They stood there, fists on hips and grey woolen tunics splayed from their pale breastbones like dressed bream. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Birds were, to be sure, still very much in the air over Williamsburg, and therefore it was not only reasonable, it was expected, that they would alight on the breastbones of these young banking women. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her sisters and mother beat their breastbones and cried, but what could I do? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thompson: Our breastbones were literally tied together; there were like six inches between us. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their rolling call, produced in a French horn concealed in their breastbones, rains down from winter skies and haunts my dreams. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Through an elaborate, carved wooden screen, Sula could see another dining room with a few Lai-own sitting in the special chairs that cradled their long breastbones. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The faces of living humans they merely explore, and the peninsulas of their forearms, and the promontories of their breastbones, and the shallows of their tympanic chests, which when heard close up thunder too loudly for moths to notice. ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)

It had stabbed though many breastbones; punctured many hearts. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The breastbones are removed by hand before the birds are packaged and shipped to stores. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Her hands sensually explored his chest and the virile mat of curly hair scattered across sinewed breastbones. ❋ Janet Dailey (1983)

Giant sunflowers, like junkie scarecrows on the nod, dozed in one spot with their dry heads drooped upon their breastbones. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1976)