Example Sentences

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Cary drew a long breath, shook himself slightly like a swimmer who has breasted a formidable wave, and broke into a laugh.

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

A man who has breasted a whirlwind of detraction and abuse for Justice—not the "male, adult" justice of Lincoln, but the freedom and justice, without limitation, for "man, woman, and child."

From Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures by Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton)

He's trailed them far o'er the trackless range, Has this knight of the saddle leather; He has risked his life in the mad stampede, And has breasted all kinds of weather.

From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery