Sentence examples for breastless from inspiring English sources

Immerse your ears – be they piggy or human – from the noir to the neo-Romantic, with readings from well-established wordsmiths Iain Sinclair and Mimi Khalvati, as well as burgeoning bards like Clare Best, whose collection Breastless charts her experience of mastectomy, and Philip Pollecoff, a lawyer whose lyrics span Ovaltine, acid and alimony.

"I stand before you breastless," Ms. Dowd said.

He shames the lazy reader with his ability to open up individual words and phrases Mr Updike's "poignantly breastless", for example, as a description of a passing girl.

And the question is, what do the breastless wear?

By casting Joan Fontaine, he made sure that the second Mrs De Winter was a breastless, almost pre-adolescent figure; in shot after shot, she is made to appear tiny and super-fragile next to the brooding hulk of De Winter, played by Laurence Olivier as if he were Heathcliff.

But I would still prefer the high quality years I have had and, to an extent, am still having - even breastless - to the long, drawn-out miseries of the symptoms that once plagued me.

But nothing I saw in any of the department stores anticipated a bald, breastless buyer.

As Eliot put it in the poem "Whispers of Immortality": "Webster was much possessed by death/ And saw the skull beneath the skin,/ And breastless creatures underground/ Leaned backward with a lipless grin".