LEGS in a Sentence

Learn LEGS from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For LEGS, below is one of 367 sentences:
What a pity legs could not be shown, she thought, pulling up her petticoats and regretfully viewing them, plump and neat under pantalets.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEGS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
leg
 n.  one of the supports for a piece of furniture
 n.  a limb of an animal used for supporting the body and for walking
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He stretched out his legs, drove his heels into the road to keep the sled from slipping forward, and bent her head back between his hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  She waited while he seated himself with crossed legs in the front of the sled; then she crouched quickly down at his back and clasped her arms about him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  She entered, and behind her, almost hidden by her voluminous calico skirts, came her twelve-year-old daughter, squirming against her mother's legs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  She was a brown little creature, with skinny legs like a bird and a myriad of pigtails carefully wrapped with twine sticking stiffly out from her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  What a pity legs could not be shown, she thought, pulling up her petticoats and regretfully viewing them, plump and neat under pantalets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  No, a fine little stallion with legs two yards long.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  She could have bitten off her tongue for that slip, for he laughed softly as he crossed Gerald's legs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  In a moment Phil came down, all long legs and arms and awkwardness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  He stretched out his long legs in their scarred high boots for them to admire.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Rhett Butler lounged in the shadows, his long legs in their elegant boots crossed negligently, his dark face an unreadable blank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  She paced the floor in her bare feet, her nightgown clinging to her legs and the more she walked the stronger became her foreboding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  Her mind felt numb and so did her legs, numb as in a nightmare when she tried to run and could not move them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  Her legs were leaden, trembling with fatigue and strain, and she shivered with cold from the clammy sweat that soaked her body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
16  The boss sat on the edge of the table dangling his legs.
17  My legs were trembling with fear.
18  I've lost all feeling in my legs.
19  Devil killer body, a large wavy golden hair shine, slender legs wearing a yellow goose miniskirts, show figure of the perfect.
20  Her legs were covered in scratches and bruises after her walk through the forest.
21  Sit on the floor, stretching your legs out in front of you.
22  We'd been out walking all day and I was on my last legs when we reached the hotel.
23  The cat rubbed itself against my legs.
24  Slacken your legs and slowly lie back.
25  He has powerful arms and legs.
26  When you pull the strings, the puppet's arms and legs move.
27  My legs still felt quite shaky.
28  To save his life, doctors amputated his legs.
29  He sustained injuries to his arms, legs and several internal organs.
30  Our cat likes to sharpen her claws on the legs of the dining table.