Sample Sentences forbreech (editor-reviewed)
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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'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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A man in a leather coat and breeches led a cow along the road. (source)breeches = pants
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Sure and certain, he thought, as he pulled on his fine velvet breeches and silk stockings. (source)
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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)
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Kropp stalks up, with his breeches rolled up and his feet bare. (source)breeches = pants
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Do you know what it means when a baby comes breech?† (source)
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We're breeched!† (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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We have to open her womb and take the baby out, because it is in the breech position.† (source)
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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)
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His Clothing is a new Felt Hat, black Cotton Frockcoat and Breeches, and new Stockings and Shoes.† (source)
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If I can't quite get the hang of poverty-chastity-and-obedience, I can learn instead about vermifuges, breech deliveries, arrow wounds, gangrene, and elephantiasis.† (source)
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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)
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My sleeve is torn and my breeches are unaccountably damp, but nothing was harmed save my dignity.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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Breech births.
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Breech = Breech birth refers to a child born bottom first.
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