Below you will find example sentences with "front legs". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Front Legs in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: legs
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 15 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "front legs" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as around the front legs before the, behind the front legs or just, hind, tail and body stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with two legs, front camera, front nine, two legs and hind legs, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with front legs
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The hind legs were much longer than the front legs. (10 words)
First they have to get it's front legs cuffed behind it's back. (14 words)
She was born with crooked front legs, meaning mobility was an issue for her. (14 words)
Some operators intentionally extend (to raise) threaded levelers on the rear legs and/or shorten or remove the levelers on the front legs to create additional incline in the playfield, making the ball move faster and harder to play. (39 words)
When frogs mate, the male climbs on the back of the female and wraps his fore limbs round her body, either behind the front legs or just in front of the hind legs. (33 words)
Straightness (Geraderichtung) A horse is straight when the hind legs follow the path of the front legs, on both straight lines and on bending lines, and the body follows the line of travel. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The hair on the legs should be smooth and short, except for a feathering on the front legs and "trousers", as previously described, on the hind legs.
When frogs mate, the male climbs on the back of the female and wraps his fore limbs round her body, either behind the front legs or just in front of the hind legs.
Kangaroos have a unique three-stage walk where they plant their front legs and tail first, then push off their tail, followed lastly by the back legs.
Like most salamanders, it has short legs with four toes on the front legs and five on its back limbs, and its tail is keeled for propulsion.
One elephant has been observed to graze by kneeling on its front legs, raising on its hind legs and taking in grass with its lips.
Some operators intentionally extend (to raise) threaded levelers on the rear legs and/or shorten or remove the levelers on the front legs to create additional incline in the playfield, making the ball move faster and harder to play.
Straightness (Geraderichtung) A horse is straight when the hind legs follow the path of the front legs, on both straight lines and on bending lines, and the body follows the line of travel.
The front legs of corbiculate bees bear combs for cleaning the antennae, and in many species the hind legs bear pollen baskets, flattened sections with incurving hairs to secure the collected pollen.
The hind legs were much longer than the front legs.
When galloping, the hind legs move around the front legs before the latter move forward, and the tail will curl up.
The first is when it lifts up its front legs and pulls out two blades to slam down in a small area if effect.
After 13 or 17 years starved of daylight (depending on the species), the burrow to the surface using their front legs and transform into adults.
Fitness coach Billy Leadley refereed the underground fights from his home, with reports one dog named Bonnie had suffered terrible injuries to her front legs, with her body never found.
Doing it less than a year after a razor-wire fence sliced one of your front legs to the bone is a tearful Hollywood comeback.
First they have to get it's front legs cuffed behind it's back.
It shows an Amur (or Siberian) tigress wrapping its front legs around an ancient Manchurian fir in far-eastern Russia, which is the only place that the rare species can be found.
She was born with crooked front legs, meaning mobility was an issue for her.
Putting his front legs around his brother, he places his head on top of his — and it’s beautiful.
Under threat, a startled pangolin will cover its head with its front legs, exposing its scales to any potential predator.
Elephants are incapable of rotating their front legs, as the ulna and radius are fixed in pronation ; the "palm" of the manus faces backward.