Example sentences for: chests

How can you use “chests” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a way it is, for it’s a replica of one of the three ships that the Patriots, dressed as Indians, boarded and from which they dumped 342 chests of tea.

  • In the late 1960s Chicanas who joined the Brown Berets de Aztlán, a political pseudomilitary youth group, often dressed as Adelitas, wearing rebozos (shawls) and bandoliers crisscrossed over their chests.

  • He demanded that the British merchants in Canton surrender their opium stores, and to back up his ultimatum he laid siege to the traders, who, after six tense weeks, surrendered over 20,000 chests of opium.

  • Boxwood, mahogany, or bamboo screens, chairs, and chests with elaborately carved designs re-create the atmosphere of old China.

  • Artesanía created closer to home, in Acapulco’s home state of Guerrero, includes lacquered chests and plates from Olinalá, as well as the white huipiles (an indigenous style blouse), embroidered in brightly colored shades of orange, red, and Rosa Mexicano (hot pink).


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