Example sentences for: chests

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

  • 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.

  • Her image is found on T-shirts, key rings, low-rider car hoods, and tattooed across adult male chests.

  • Some 20,000 chests of opium were confiscated from British merchants in Guangzhou (Canton).

  • Treasure chests mix with rum casks, and pirates tell of their lives at sea in the lonely and dangerous times.

  • It's no accident that Solondz's pedophile protagonist is a shrink and that the characters who get things off their chests go ahead and act on them anyway.


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