How to Use chested in a Sentence

chested

adjective
  • Many of my flat-chested friends wear these all the time.
    Annie James, Cosmopolitan, 24 Feb. 2016
  • Others were strolling through their work bare-chested and in shorts.
    John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Her mom flips to a photo of a much, much younger girl — a chubby-cheeked, flat-chested child.
    Anna Silman, The Cut, 25 May 2018
  • In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet.
    Lily Rothman, Time, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Bras are for you, too The idea that flat-chested women can't wear bras well is entirely a myth.
    Zanna Roberts Rassi, Marie Claire, 1 June 2015
  • The film opens with a nighttime shot of a bare-chested young man carrying a large catfish out of the river.
    Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Ahead, a collection of bras, handpicked by the experts for all of your small-chested needs.
    Claudia Saide, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Most of the photos were of nude or bare-chested boys in different settings.
    Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • A Greek pop chanteuse stands center stage, singing a dramatic melody as a pair of bare-chested men dance and stomp in a large puddle.
    William Lee Adams, Billboard, 8 June 2017
  • The finale came in a march of bare-chested men painted in silver glitter to go with their black disco pants.
    Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • Some look like ghost ships — until a dog starts barking from the bow, or a bearded, bare-chested captain waves from the cockpit.
    Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The Nutters suit, unlike others on the Row, was cut for flash: tight-waisted and small-chested to emphasize the body, with a long jacket and mega lapels.
    Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • Termote is a compact, broad-chested man, soft-spoken and amiable.
    Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The first thought was bloat — a twisted gut, always a possibility for large-chested breeds like his boxer–pit bull mix.
    Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The man who committed an armed robbery in Fairfax County late Thursday was bare-chested, police said.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • And the room, decorated by the visual artist Nadia Lauro, did resemble a spa, one with basket weavers, the sound of surf and bare-chested people in blue mermaid wigs.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Residents drive motorcycles on dirt roads lined with tire repair shops and bars where bare-chested men offer cold beer.
    Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Estadio Chivas was rocking, red and white confetti fluttering in the evening air, bare-chested fans jumping and waving their shirts over their heads.
    Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • Keenan’s voice is gentler—older—intact, still hovering and swerving, still making its folky dips and flutters, but with hardly a tight-chested scream on the whole album.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The men are athletic, smooth-chested, sporting 12 packs, orange skin, and fluorescent teeth.
    David Geiringer, Quartzy, 25 July 2019
  • Lang did it many times, over, with minimal white harnesses over bare chested models wearing only a pair of pristinely tailored black trousers.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Almost all the exciting girls start with good bodies, but are not necessarily flat-chested or skinny.
    Eugenia Sheppard, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2014
  • A lithe, bare-chested man danced erotically around another man swathed in a black burqa, prying apart the second man’s legs and removing a beach ball, a teddy bear and other objects and tossing them around the salon.
    Joshua Hammer, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
  • The production also favors a barefaced and bare-chested homoeroticism.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The 28-year-old's heavy chested touch lofted the ball into the air, but a speculative twisting volley came inches away from nestling into Mattia Perin's top right-hand corner, however only skimmed the roof of the net on its way behind.
    SI.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Page was referencing a calendar featuring the photos of a bare-chested Vladimir Putin in the outdoors, given as a gag gift to agents working on the Russian investigation.
    Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Paulette recently started a 1,000-mile bare-chested walk from Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness for breast cancer.
    Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 3 May 2016
  • The process was arduous; the camera captured a bare-chested Ranallo weeping inside hotel rooms, growling at himself with rage and pounding his keyboard in euphoria.
    Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • Putin has cultivated something of a tough-guy image — photos of the bare-chested leader horseback riding, diving and spearfishing while on vacation in Siberia went viral.
    Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The ultra-fit (and often bare-chested) Bermudez — a Moonlight veteran who continues to grow in vocal power and technique — easily navigates the tortuous score and never misses a note.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2017

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