LEG in a Sentence
Learn LEG 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.
367 example sentences for LEG, such as:
1. He had the bad luck to break his leg.
2. I lost this here leg and this here eye.
3. She had the misfortune to break her leg.
4. The cat was clawing at the leg of the chair.
5. Blood was oozing out of the wound on his leg.
2. I lost this here leg and this here eye.
3. She had the misfortune to break her leg.
4. The cat was clawing at the leg of the chair.
5. Blood was oozing out of the wound on his leg.
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Meanings and Examples of LEG
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leg
n. one of the supports for a piece of furniture
n. (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 It's easier to walk with a leg wound than with dysentery.
2 Gerald moved toward her, silent as a sleepwalker, his stiff leg dragging.
3 "We'll both take a leg and drag him," said Melanie firmly.
4 One foot in the shortened stirrup and the other leg crooked about the pommel in an approximation of a side saddle, she set out across the fields toward Mimosa, steeling herself to find it burned.
5 One night soon after this, he tapped on Scarlett's door long after the house was asleep and sheepishly exhibited a leg peppered with small shot.
6 Pork beamed under the praise and gingerly rubbed his bandaged leg.
7 "I think so too," said the one-eyed man and slapped his leg with a laugh.
8 Some of them lacked an arm or a leg or an eye, many had scars which would ache in rainy weather if they lived for seventy years but these seemed small matters now.
9 Yet, none of these things seemed to bother him any more than the leg he had left in Virginia.
10 Though he had only one leg, he could work faster than Pork.
11 She heard the thump- thump of his wooden leg in the hall outside the office and then he stopped.
12 Will sat down on the sofa and rubbed the stump of his leg.
13 The man who was making his way across the back yard stumped, like Will Benteen, on a wooden leg.
14 All she knew was that his voice bespoke the mountains to the north and that he had been in the army and had lost both leg and eye shortly before the surrender.
15 I lost this here leg and this here eye.
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
1 An adult conger eel can easily bite through a man's leg.
2 She broke her leg a month ago and it's still in plaster.
3 A sharp tap on the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg.
4 My leg is still very tender where it was bruised.
5 When he broke his leg he had to walk on crutches.
6 Every time he put any weight on his left leg he winced in pain.
7 There was a picture in the paper of a man whose leg had been blown off.
8 He hasn't a leg to stand on for his behavior.
9 Blood was oozing out of the wound on his leg.
10 She had the misfortune to break her leg.
11 He had the bad luck to break his leg.
12 The cat was clawing at the leg of the chair.
13 Don't stand on that chair, it's got a weak leg.
14 The doctor said my leg should be better in a couple of days.
15 The doctor jabbed the needle into the dog's leg.