English vocabulary examples in context: abdomen
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 1.
A man in a blouse was flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed his last on the ground.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 2.
Cousin Benedict was occupied in studying with a magnifying glass an articulate which he had at last found on board--a simple orthopter, whose head disappeared under the prothorax; an insect with flat elytrums, with round abdomen, with rather long wings, which belonged to the family of the roaches, and to the species of American cockroaches.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 3.
It was found that he was shot through the breast and through the abdomen.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 4.
Dobb as strongly insisted that the wound in the abdomen caused death.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 5.
Claudius hastened back to Rome, Silius was dispatched, and Messalina, lacking the will-power to destroy herself, was killed when an officer ran a sword through her abdomen, just as it appeared that Claudius was about to relent.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 6.
From the right side of his abdomen, blood was welling out making a large stain on the grass.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 7.
Then he made a sign to someone, and the torturing pain in his abdomen caused Prince Andrew to lose consciousness.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 8.
To the beekeeper's tap on the wall of the sick hive, instead of the former instant unanimous humming of tens of thousands of bees with their abdomens threateningly compressed, and producing by the rapid vibration of their wings an aerial living sound, the only reply is a disconnected buzzing from different parts of the deserted hive.
Vocabulary in context: abdomen -- Example 9.
There are no longer sentinels sounding the alarm with their abdomens raised, and ready to die in defense of the hive.
