Example Sentences

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Thus most women go under anaesthesia without knowing whether they will wake up breastless or not.

From Time Magazine Archive

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

From Poems by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

This, indeed, is the meaning of the term Amazon, which signifies "breastless."

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various

Milkless wholly was his mother, And his mother wholly breastless.

From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias