I had ridden with General Davenant, as his brigade swept forward, and we werebreasting a heavy fire on his front, when a sudden cry of "Cavalry!
Let us bask in the sunshine, before breasting the storm.
Now they are out in the open, and now they are breasting the slope, While into the eyes of death they gaze as into the eyes of hope.
Breasting the shock From rock to rock: A pillar of storm, he shakes the ground, His turban on his temples wound.
Venning stood up, and looked down upon a file of little figures breasting the slope.
Up he came, breasting the steep ascent with a look behind at frequent intervals as if he feared pursuit, and when he reached the wall, he drew a great breath of relief.
The monster breasting waves seemed as horrible as it was majestic.
Through a clear spot in the glass he could see his master breasting the storm.
They went aft, now breasting the slanting deck as the bows dipped, now bending back to the answering lift, and came up to the bridge, where the Captain gave them a surly nod, and the lady flashed a smile on them.
Salient, thrust forward toward Prothero, it was the face of a winged creature in adoration, caught suddenly into heaven, breasting the flood of the supernal light.
His face sought hers, the face she knew, with its look of impetuous flight, of curves blown back, the face that seemed to lean forward, breasting the wind of its own speed.
Why could not women, as well as men, yield to their inclinations--drift with the current instead of breastingit until they were exhausted?
With the sunset there came the sound of hoofs upon loose stones, branches rustled against breasting bodies, and Mrs. Austin cowered low in her hiding-place.
After a short but determined breasting of the storm, during which my breath had nearly failed me, she suddenly stopped.
Wet to the skin, bedrabbled with mud, exhausted with breasting the gale, we stood for a moment under the porch to regain our breath, then with her characteristic energy she lifted the knocker and struck a smart blow on the door.
And where cool, heavy bow'rs unstirred entwine, Upon a headland breastingpurple seas, A crystal castle like a thought divine Rises in mysteries.
She was shining in full effulgence, as a body of horsemen commenced breastingthe pitch which winds up from Mitcheldean to the Wilderness.
It was sufficiently clear to all of us that we merely wasted strength longer breasting the swift current of this river, and were constantly drawing farther from our goal.
Thus advancing inch by inch, avoiding with care the least rustling of dry grass, I wriggled snake-like forward, until I began breasting the steeper incline of the mound, its summit now outlined against the lighter space of overarching sky.
When a visitor was announced he tumbled his papers about in imposing confusion and was discovered breasting the mighty ocean of his labours, his chin resolutely out of the water.
Three minutes later, they were breasting through a low thicket of evergreen.
Hugh was still speaking, lying on his oars, when there came a great shout from among the willows on the island, and sounds followed as of a strong man breasting roughly through the wood.
Think of this moving town; this portable village of royal belligerents covered with glory and medals, breasting the billows!
And the risk of a heavy sea boarding us was fearfully multiplied by having thus to cross the storm instead of breasting it.
There were as many as four curves to pass, all breasting elevations at the side.
He had got into his clothes, left the room by opening a window, and, breasting the violent tempest, had made for and reached the limits tower.
Three minutes later they were breasting through a low thicket of evergreen.
The breasting is a strap (a) running from the point of the saddle to a padded ring in the middle of the chest.
When breasting the bar, repeat the walk in that position.
Breasting the hill fifty yards below him came the heaving throng of rioters, few of them, luckily, with fire-arms, but all bent on vengeance.
For some time the swimmers continued to strike out to sea, breasting over the swell like hundreds of black seals.
For an hour the blast drove us along, while, owing to the sharpness of the vessel's bow and the press of canvas, she dashed through the waves instead of breasting over them, thereby drenching the decks with water fore and aft.
Breasting the house, he saw that she had swerved toward the island's long, leeward neck, from whence there was thrown a narrow pile-bridge connecting it with the mainland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breasting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
