The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Three dots, each a different color, on the bees’ minuscule thoraxes before releasing them again.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
There is a family of native sweat bees with shiny green thoraxes, but the rest of their anatomy does not match Dickinson’s description.
From Slate ● May 17, 2016
To that end, he and his colleagues glued tiny radio transmitters to the thoraxes of worker bees.
From Economist ● Mar. 28, 2012
Listen carefully and you can almost hear the sound of thoraxes cracking open and fairy-winged wasps being born.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 16, 2012
Why can't music go out in the same way it comes in to a man, without having to crawl over a fence of sounds, thoraxes, catguts, wire, wood, and brass?
From Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives
