floating rib

In passage through night: space was full of floating ribs.

"They put the waistline just under the floating rib," she said.

The four floating ribs may be permanently compressed or moved by such garments.

The last two "floating ribs" do not attach at the front to anything at all.

Floating ribs of a tiger are considered a good luck talisman.

Typical targets include floating ribs, hips, and the side of the abdomen.

The floating rib snapped; he felt its stab when his body recoiled.

Some people are missing one of the two pairs of floating ribs, while others have a third pair.

It connected somewhere on her torso: solar plexus, floating ribs, something like that.

Common targets for this kick include the head (especially in competition), as well as the knees and floating ribs.

The Hanging People stood as high as Louis's floating ribs.

A heel kicked him hard, just below the floating ribs, and Louis doubled up with a breathy cry.

Fortunately, at this point, Dolmacher got an arrow between his floating ribs; it went in three inches and stuck.

The most common strikes to the chūdan area target either the solar plexus or floating ribs.

You slide your hand inside your coat and jacket and press up under the floating rib on your left side.

The tip of the massive blade entered the bandit's floating ribs, cracking bone and carving cartilage as it shot on through to the heart.

(The floating ribs are just that - floating - so will move back slowly into their original position if the corset is no longer worn.

I blocked his punches and jabbed him in the floating ribs, rolled him off me, and scrambled to my feet again.

In addition to a ribbed skeleton that extends from the backbone, the fish has two rows of intramuscular "floating ribs" on each fillet.

The corset was laced progressively tighter, forcing the floating ribs upward and compressing the soft tissue at the waist.

Holly later phoned Mac at the Floating Rib to let him know of Roberts unchanged condition.

She'd taught him the riblock the hard way: she'd held his floating ribs shut with her knees so that he couldn't breathe.

There are twelve ribs, you know, and the two lower ones are called floating ribs, because they are not fastened to the breastbone.

Connie goes to the book launch at The Floating Rib, where she eventually tells the crowd that Molly is the actual author.