Recent Examples on the WebIn a new summer exhibit to celebrate cicadas at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Hurley pointed to a mural of a ghostly white cicada shedding its exoskeleton with two black spots on its thorax.—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024 When the team applied soil from these areas to wounded and infected Matabele ants, the bacterial loads increased in only two hours at both the wound site and the ants’ thoraxes.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2024 In addition to the thorax, women also tend to suffer more injuries to their lower extremities, including the ankles, during crashes.—Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 The ant was shaking her thorax at him now, beckoning him closer with her pincers.—Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for thorax
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