rib

Example Sentences

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Still, now, hours after my assignment, I can feel it beating so hard against my chest I think it might bruise my ribs.

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I could see how thin she was, how easily you could count her ribs.

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Carefully, he ran his thumb over the ribbed cuff of wool, absorbed in the texture.

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I was so busy looking at everything that I almost didn’t notice that there were other people in the room until Regan elbowed me hard in the ribs.

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Working the handle back through my hands until the net was close to me, I poked a finger through the mesh and tickled one in the ribs.

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