TORSO


Meaning of TORSO in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

upper

It is in the treatment of the upper torso that the artist really shows his mettle.

What is left of the bombers is their upper torsos , their heads and their faces.

The soul is said to reside in the upper torso , and is the seat of the emotions.

I covered his lower body with my own naked upper torso .

The most important other piece is an upper torso of Athena, who occupied the centre of the gable.

The determined set of her upper torso .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He had burns over much of his torso .

Kevin liked to walk around the house in nothing but a pair of jeans, showing off his muscular torso .

The search led to the discovery of a headless torso in the woods.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A slight strain will be felt in the abdomen and at the point where the legs join the torso .

Attach the arms to the torso with cocktail sticks.

He swung his legs over the windowsill and for an instant his torso seemed to disappear into the darkness inside.

Her legs were still; her shoulders dropped; her torso folded into itself.

Not only are they vital to our posture, they help keep the torso flexible.

Perversa is another nude torso with an unusual shining halo: Gyrating plants creep across it.

With his slitty eyes and buff torso , he plays Eddie as a guy who probably moves his lips when he reads.

Yet only seconds after the first splash hit him I felt a tiny movement in his torso .

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