in-a-sentence.com, use legs in a sentence

Use legs in a sentence

Sentences ending with legs

That's the way you begun here, I guess; and I don't want to see your horse tumble because some one throws a fence-rail at its legs. [11]
Here the horses were changed, and now Gombert walked with Barbara in front of the vehicle to "stretch their legs. [10]
Old Karay had turned his head and was angrily searching for fleas, baring his yellow teeth and snapping at his hind legs. [2]
The only solution to this puzzle was that the cattle had been driven through water, and water deep enough to wet their legs. [13]
It was marvelous to see her skim over it, leaping among its intricacies, and not breaking her slender legs. [4]
It's like trying to do a St. Vitus's dance with wooden legs. [5]
The dog, as though to let him know he was there, rubbed against his legs. [11]
Meister Wilhelm," interrupted the captain, throwing himself into the arm-chair and stretching out his booted legs. [10]
Then followed a stupefying apparition --a double-headed human creature with four arms, one body, and a single pair of legs! [5]
Wrangle's power and spirit and momentum had begun to run him off his legs. [13]

Short sentences using legs

Respecting his legs now--? [12]
His legs worked like piston-rods. [11]
Look at wooden legs. [12]
Look at those legs! [10]
How would his legs feel? [5]

Sentences containing legs two or more times

People with short legs step quickly, because legs are pendulums, and swing more times in a minute the shorter they are. [6]

More example sentences with the word legs in them

You would have your legs under the Round Table and a 'Sir' in front of your names within the twenty-four hours; and you could bring about a new distribution of the married princesses and duchesses of the Court in another twenty-four. [5]
Suppose one of you wants to borrow the legs a minute from the one that's got them, could he let him? [5]
Every body has written about the Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. [5]
The thoroughly un-Hellenic wrapping up of the legs proved that. [10]
But Venters's voice would have kept anybody's legs from bucklin'. [13]
It was a wonder that the horses' legs were not broken a dozen times. [4]
The barefooted lads, with their nimble, gazellelike legs, were all well looking, and might have been cast all in one mold. [10]
I was sitting with my legs hanging out of the pilot-house window. [5]
He was seated with legs crossed in Oriental fashion and with head slightly bowed. [11]
Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to the bridge. [2]
He was sitting, with his legs crossed, looking up at her intently. [9]
He built it with a tail, teeth, fourteen legs, and a snout, and said it ate grass, cattle, pebbles, and dirt with equal enthusiasm. [5]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
At length, after what seemed an age of staring at his legs, the ground caved on him, and he would have smothered if we had not dragged him out by the heels, sputtering and all powdered brown. [9]
Satan said they were the worst he had seen; and when he touched them and made them alive, it was just ridiculous the way they acted, on account of their legs not being of uniform lengths. [5]
Though my legs were short, I had both sinew and training, and now I was at one end of the line and now at the other. [9]
These young birds were not albinos, as shewn by the colour of their beaks and legs, which nearly resembled the same parts in the adults. [1]
On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements. [2]
But a giant weak in the legs and not standing upright!--keep him in the carawan, but never show him, never show him, for any persuasion that can be offered. [12]
What I meant, was, that I would break one of his legs, or something of that sort; but in Lucerne I instantly saw that I could impair his mind. [5]
Sergeant Bowers's horse was very large and tall, with slim, long legs, and looked like a railroad bridge. [5]
He knew I was on my last legs financially. [11]
And yet he was not tall; but on his deep chest, his enormous square shoulders, and short, bandy legs, the muscles stood out like elastic balls, showing the connoisseur that in strength he was a giant. [10]
He says there was not a sound pair of legs in Richmond, and that our men, had they known it, could have safely gone in and burned everything and brought in Jeff Davis. [7]
But how great was his surprise, upon opening his door one morning, some days later, to find the grateful poodle patiently waiting there, and in its company another stray dog, one of whose legs, by some accident, had been broken. [5]
I heard Ralph's voice, and turned to discover him standing beside me, his long legs thrust slightly apart, his hands in his pockets, overlooking the scene with typical, semi-contemptuous amusement. [9]
We were mounted upon very small donkeys, as a measure of safety; in time of peril we could straighten our legs and stand up, and let the donkey walk from under. [5]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
He was so ungainly, so pimply about the head, so scaly about the legs, yet so serene, so unspeakably satisfied! [5]
Tucking his legs under him and dropping his head he sat down on the cold ground by the wheel of the cart and remained motionless a long while sunk in thought. [2]
If our legs tried to obey two wills, how could we ever get anywhere? [5]
He went, and tried to hurry, but his legs refused to move and he knew he would not be in time to lock the door though he painfully strained all his powers. [2]
His legs were trembling under him, for now he knew that Charley Steele was himself again. [11]
When she was touched, she jerked her bound legs and looked wildly yet simply at everybody. [2]
My legs were too long for it, I remember. [9]
But he managed to study him pretty well,--first his face, then his neck and shoulders, the set of his arms, the narrowing at the loins, the make of his legs, and the way he moved. [6]
Swaying from side to side on his long, thin legs in his fluttering dressing gown, this lunatic was running impetuously, his gaze fixed on Rostopchin, shouting something in a hoarse voice and making signs to him to stop. [2]
I had trouble to overtake it, but my legs are long and there are many hours in a day; I overtook it last night. [5]
He would like to have as many legs as a wheel has spokes, and rotate about in the same way. [4]
His trousers seemed to creep higher up his legs, and he could feel his very ankles blush. [4]
I am too tired to enter on further evidence, but for the future I shall treat my legs with the utmost consideration. [10]
In the mean time, Dick Venner, who had been dashed down with his horse, was trying to extricate himself,--one of his legs being held fast under the animal, the long spur on his boot having caught in the saddle-cloth. [6]
He wasted no time, but dived among the forest of legs about him and disappeared. [5]
He has little time for the poetry of haying, as he struggles along, filling the air with the wet mass which he shakes over his head, and picking his way with short legs and bare feet amid the short and freshly cut stubble. [4]
He caught one, tied its legs together, passed the rope over his head, and started for home. [6]
A stick was thrust between her jaws and she was fastened with a leash, as if bridled, her legs were bound together, and Daniel rolled her over once or twice from side to side. [2]
His terrier, as though realizing exactly what he wished, seemed to guide him by rubbing against his legs, and even pressing hard against them when he was in any danger of losing the middle of the road, or swerving towards a ditch or some obstruction. [11]
They're Luigi's legs this week, but--" "Ah, they told you that, did they? [5]
Do they really think those little thin legs can do anything in such a slashing sweepstakes as is coming off in these next forty years? [6]
But the wonderful thing was that for six months McGilveray's legs were as steady as his head was right. [11]
The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over. [5]
Rural, too; for there was a pig and a small donkey and a hen anchored out, close at hand, by cords to their legs, on a spot that purported to be grassy. [5]
The sight of them sufficed mine host, for he went out as fast as his legs would go, giving the bell a sharp pull as he passed the door; and presently I heard him complimenting two gentlemen into the house. [9]
Citizens said that their largest spiders could not more than spread their legs over an ordinary saucer, and that they had always been considered honest. [5]
They still preserved their ample buckskin seat intact; and so his short pea jacket and his long, thin legs assisted to make him a picturesque object whenever he stood on the forecastle looking abroad upon the ocean over the bows. [5]
I crawled into the wigwam, but the king and the duke had their legs sprawled around so there warn't no show for me; so I laid outside--I didn't mind the rain, because it was warm, and the waves warn't running so high now. [5]
People who have the use of their legs all the time never think of what a blessing it is, of course. [5]
Jaded horses in the street lifted their noses; stray, homeless cats rubbed against his legs, and vagrant dogs looked up at him trustfully with wagging tails. [9]
No one takes the state turnpike nowadays except crazy tourists who are willing to risk their necks and their horses' legs for the sake of scenery. [9]
Gabord looked at the soldiers, looked at the wife, at the priest, then spread out his legs and stuck his hands down into his pockets, while his horse rubbed its nose against his shoulder. [11]
You land in the saddle comfortably, next time, and stay there--that is, if you can be content to let your legs dangle, and leave the pedals alone a while; but if you grab at once for the pedals, you are gone again. [5]
He dived into the private office once more, where he found Mr. Crewe seated with his legs crossed, calmly reading a last winter's playbill. [9]
I can comprehend the pleasure to be got out of the hydraulic engine; but what can be the fascination of a whip, when one has nothing to flagellate but the calves of his own legs, I could never understand. [6]
She hastened down the platform still with keen eyes scanning the passengers, who were mostly alighting to stretch their legs and get a breath of air. [11]
There is something the matter with his legs, but I do not quite know what it is, they do not seem right. [5]
Then she threw the light on the old chair, and, shuddering, caught up a shawl and flung it over the spiral-wound arms and legs, and the flattened reptiles on which it stood. [6]
At length, however, the knight began to feel that his strength was deserting him; his sword seemed to grow heavier and heavier in his hand, and his legs felt as if an hundredweight had been attached to them. [10]
The next moment the heavy implement was raised aloft; the next, there was a crash and a squall, and the cat was off on three legs to meet an engagement; Roxy would arrive just as the lamp or a window went to irremediable smash. [5]
The legs of the heavy animal were tied together with ropes, and Marx was obliged to take the ends of the knot between his teeth like a bridle, and drag the carcass to the castle. [10]
The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh--beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing. [2]
The people cheer the dog and laugh: a white-handed official, in gold lace, and without his hat, rushes out to "shoo" the dog away, but is unsuccessful; for the animal dashes between his legs, and approaches the royal and carpeted steps. [4]
You bring me the cow and you shall have a calf--and a calf with twelve legs too. [10]
Be careful of the chair, one of its legs is gone. [5]
The general with the bandaged head bent forward as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides with his thin legs, went up to Kutuzov. [2]
I know, without that, that at dinner yesterday, Angelo was as tired as a dog, and yet Luigi wouldn't lend him the legs to go up-stairs and take a nap with. [5]
The result is that your legs are ice, and you know how you will feel by and by when you are buried. [5]
The Cossacks saw that his arms and legs jerked rapidly though his head was quite motionless. [2]
She clicked her teeth (Karay no longer had her by the throat), leaped with a movement of her hind legs out of the gully, and having disengaged herself from the dogs, with tail tucked in again, went forward. [2]
She had hardly taken this position, when there came dancing up the street, with his legs all wrong, and his head everywhere by turns, a pony. [12]
One of his swollen legs had a pillow under it, and was wrapped in bandages. [5]
A ponderous tow-headed Swiss woman, who put on many fine-lady airs, but was evidently more used to washing linen than wearing it, sat in a corner seat and put her legs across into the opposite one, propping them intermediately with her up-ended valise. [5]
I was much surprised to-day to note how my legs have wasted away above my knees: they are hardly thicker than my upper arm used to be. [5]
No, for it supports itself by holding to her finger, and thus goes a few steps on its hind legs, and then falls down. [5]
I allowed the subject to rest there, and asked for something to eat and smoke, and something hot to drink, and a basket to pile my legs in; but I could not have any of these things. [5]
Plutarch's eyesight was stronger than his legs were, and where a pretty woman was to be seen, it was always very keen. [10]
Whereupon the Colonel stretched his legs apart, seized his goatee, pulled his head down, and gazed at him for some time from under his eyebrows, so searchingly that the blood flew to Mr. Hopper's fleshy face. [9]
I tied a strap round his legs, and shot him with a revolver. [5]
A pale glow stole over the Thing; gradually its cloudy folds took shape--an arm appeared, then legs, then a body, and last a great sad face looked out of the vapor. [5]
His legs are still racked with growing-pains, but he has a good time, nevertheless. [5]
There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. [5]
Denzil's head was squat upon his shoulders, and his long, handsome body was also squat, because his legs were as short, proportionately, as his mind was long. [11]
There was a splash near the boat that made me clutch my legs, the wails ceased and began again with redoubled intensity. [9]
I sought the spirit at first in the heart, then in the brain; but now I know that it resides in the arms and legs, for when I have strained them I find thought is impossible. [10]
Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish. [5]
He rode a sorel horse--a great, wiry raw-bone, with a lunge like a moose, and legs that struck the ground with the precision of a piston-rod. [11]
Falling out about something, Machumps slew Namontack, and having made a hole to bury him, because it was too short he cut off his legs and laid them by him. [4]
He had sat so long without moving that his legs bent under him. [11]
A butcher was slaughtering an ox before his house, the creature's legs having been pinioned; and his men were busy sharpening their knives to cut up a wild goat. [10]
We had a skilled trainer, and under his instructions we were getting our legs in the right condition for the contemplated pedestrian tours; we were well satisfied with the progress which we had made in the German language, [1. [5]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word legs in a sentence? How do you use legs in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word legs? It contains example sentences with the word legs, a sentence example for legs, and legs in sample sentence.