breechin a sentence
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It was a difficult breech birth.breech = rear (in this case indicating that the baby came out of the birth canal butt-first)
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The rocket is breech-loaded and a two-person team can fire it six times a minute.breech = rear
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I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants. (source)breeches = pants
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A man in a leather coat and breeches led a cow along the road. (source)
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Kropp stalks up, with his breeches rolled up and his feet bare. (source)
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But in slapping all his pockets and feeling all round himself for matches his hand came on the hilt of his little sword — the little dagger that he got from the trolls, and that he had quite forgotten; nor do the goblins seem to have noticed it, as he wore it inside his breeches. (source)
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Sure and certain, he thought, as he pulled on his fine velvet breeches and silk stockings. (source)breeches = pants
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"I'm the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery," said the mule, (source)breech = opening in the rear of the barrel of a cannon where munitions can be loaded
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We're breeched!† (source)breeched = wearing pants
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Mom and Dad had rented a trailer to carry back what little was left—Mom said those foolish thieves had overlooked some good stuff, such as a pair of Grandma Smith's riding breeches from the thirties that were of the highest quality—but the Oldsmobile's engine had seized up in Nashville, and they'd had to abandon it along with the trailer and Grandma Smith's riding breeches and take the bus the rest of the way to Welch.† (source)breeches = pants
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Do you know what it means when a baby comes breech?† (source)breech = rear
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It finally slid out of the cart and he snatched it up and opened it and took out the shells and reloaded the pistol and breeched it shut and put the rest of the loads in his pocket.† (source)breeched = wearing pants
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My sleeve is torn and my breeches are unaccountably damp, but nothing was harmed save my dignity.† (source)breeches = pants
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We have to open her womb and take the baby out, because it is in the breech position.† (source)breech = rear
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He wrote like a father would to a favourite son, Captain Marlow, and I was five-and-twenty years his senior and had tasted salt water before he was fairly breeched.† (source)breeched = wearing pants
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He wore high leather boots, leather breeches, and a pirate-style shirt.† (source)breeches = pants
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Breech births.
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Breech = Breech birth refers to a child born bottom first.
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