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breasting

[ bres-ting ]

noun

  1. a piece of leather or other material for covering the heel breast of a shoe.


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The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.

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Cormorants balancing on the calcified poles of long-abandoned jetties, looked, as they spread their wings to dry in the sun, like runners breasting a tape.

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Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.

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The sea god Neptune takes retribution by sending a monster who advances “across the expanse of ocean, breasting the surge of the waves†to devour Andromeda.

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The sight of him breasting that tape stays with me.

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