breast
noun
(in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
had been breasting
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past perfect progressiveof breast.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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It had seemed to her, all these last sad weeks, as though she and her brood had been breasting stormy waters with no harbor in sight.
From Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
