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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LEG
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Gerald moved toward her, silent as a sleepwalker, his stiff leg dragging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  "We'll both take a leg and drag him," said Melanie firmly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Pork beamed under the praise and gingerly rubbed his bandaged leg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  "I think so too," said the one-eyed man and slapped his leg with a laugh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  Yet, none of these things seemed to bother him any more than the leg he had left in Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  Though he had only one leg, he could work faster than Pork.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  She heard the thump- thump of his wooden leg in the hall outside the office and then he stopped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  Will sat down on the sofa and rubbed the stump of his leg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  The man who was making his way across the back yard stumped, like Will Benteen, on a wooden leg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  I lost this here leg and this here eye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
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.