thoraxes
- plural of thorax.
Example Sentences
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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
The rustle of the bedclothes as their thoraxes rose and fell in respiration was enough to disturb them when they allowed themselves to become over-sensitive about noise.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
