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  • noun Plural form of breastband.

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Examples

  • They replied with neck-bristling and snarling, and with quick lunges against their breastbands.

    FINIS 2010

  • The animals threw their weights against their breastbands on the instant, crouching low to the snow, and digging in their claws.

    Chapter III 2010

  • The animals threw their weights against their breastbands on the instant, crouching low to the snow, and digging in their claws.

    Chapter III 1910

  • They replied with neck-bristling and snarling, and with quick lunges against their breastbands.

    Morganson's Finish 1907

  • The dogs sprang against the breastbands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed.

    Chapter 5 1903

  • They threw themselves against the breastbands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, and put forth all their strength.

    Chapter 5, The Toil of Trace and Trail 1903

  • The dogs sprang against the breastbands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed.

    Chapter 5, The Toil of Trace and Trail 1903

  • They threw themselves against the breastbands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, and put forth all their strength.

    Chapter 5 1903

  • They replied with neck-bristling and snarling, and with quick lunges against their breastbands.

    The Turtles of Tasman Jack London 1896

  • "Because of the Mark they bore no weapons but the short hunting-bow and wolfskin quivers, with the tails hanging down, and painted breastbands.

    The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

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