noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clasp sb to your chest/bosom (= hold someone tightly with your arms )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ample
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Or as if saying, the hussy, Look at my ample - too ample - bosom , Alice thought.
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Dumont, with her sequined purse and overly ample bosom .
■ NOUN
buddy
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There was less arguing after that, but the two actors never became bosom buddies and never worked together again.
friend
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He was still my friend , my bosom friend.
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It is now that man contemplates, for it is now that the sea is a bosom friend .
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Queequeg says they are now married-meaning they are bosom friends who would defend each other to the death.
pal
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Benny and Garry were bosom pals once again.
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It is an open secret that he and Reg Pybus are bosom pals .
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The first was affection of the kind that binds families together, or bosom pals .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Daniel harbored bitterness and anger in his bosom .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she looks troubled, unsure of herself - perhaps because her bosom is merely average, one has seen bigger.
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Half the stiff bosom shirts worn nowadays, the laundry is due on them yet.
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He was still my friend, my bosom friend.
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I am taking you to my home, into the very bosom of my family.
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It is now that man contemplates, for it is now that the sea is a bosom friend.
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She was breathing more quickly now and her bosom was again rising and falling defiantly.
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Whatever swells as a result, it's unlikely to be the Mellor bosom .