How to Use chested in a Sentence

chested

adjective
  • Others were strolling through their work bare-chested and in shorts.
    — John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • Yet, among the ruins, these barrel-chested, tusked creatures managed to survive, and even thrive.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Ford, who is thirty-six, barrel-chested, and bearded, with a propensity for four-letter words, said, laughing.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The top is very flattering for small chested individuals, even without the padding.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2023
  • The men are athletic, smooth-chested, sporting 12 packs, orange skin, and fluorescent teeth.
    — David Geiringer, Quartzy, 25 July 2019
  • The man who committed an armed robbery in Fairfax County late Thursday was bare-chested, police said.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • Don’t look for Jared Verse to appear bare-chested on Sunday night at Soldier Field in Chicago.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Twelve years ago in Sochi, Russia, when temperatures rose into the mid 60s — so warm some snow groomers worked bare-chested — 80% of the snow used was artificial.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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