Below you will find example sentences with "two legs". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Two Legs in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: legs
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 20
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.7 words

Words in this phrase

two legs

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • two can mean: A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Very common word
  • legs can mean: plural of leg Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

arms and two legs 2× a rectangle two legs and the 1× although the two legs are spaced 1× by women two legs by men 1× crawley over two legs the first 1× instead of two legs this transforming 1× legs good two legs bad the 1× legs good two legs bad which 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

in 2005 the 2× although the two 1× and after reducing 1× describing the robber 1× eventually these are 1× generally this pattern 1×

Common sentence endings:

and two legs 2× on two legs 2× become more human 1× do its work 1× in the evening 1× legs with wheels 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

four 7× good 5× animals 3× equal 3× common 2× leg 2× form 2× remaining 2× 2005 2× new 2× women 2× men 2×

Related phrases

two weeks two daughters two years two goals two touchdowns two seasons two sides rating two two assists two decades

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around legs:

hind legs 11× front legs 10×

Just before it in the phrase index:

two kinds two innings two incredible two hundred two hours two horses

Just after it in the phrase index:

two letters two lines two matches two members two missions two months

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

two weeks two daughters two years two goals two touchdowns two seasons

Same ending:

hind legs front legs

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "two legs" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as arms and two legs, a rectangle two legs and the, four, good and animals stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with two weeks, two daughters, two years, hind legs and front legs, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with two legs

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Instead of two legs, this transforming robot has four legs with wheels. (12 words)

Two other primarily distance runners, Allison Rabbani `25 and Grace Charron `26, ran the middle two legs. (17 words)

What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening? (18 words)

Longer example sentences

We are right and you are wrong just on the lines of “Four legs good, Two legs bad’”, the famous analogy used by George Orwell in his famous novel ’Animal Farm’ exposing the authoritarian tenets and hypocrisy of the communists. (40 words)

The League Two playoff final is on 19 May, the day after Lewington’s birthday, and if MK Dons prevail against Crawley over two legs, the first of which is on Monday in Sussex, they will reach the Wembley finale. (40 words)

This issue was addressed by swapping the positions of the two legs every few hundred yards with a cross-over, thus ensuring that both legs had equal interference induced and allowing common-mode rejection to do its work. (38 words)

Question examples

What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening? (18 words)

Example sentences (20)

They are classified according to the number of legs with common configurations being one leg (pogo stick or "hopper"), two legs ( biped ), four legs ( quadruped ), and six legs ( hexapod ).

Generally, this pattern is a circuit consisting of five "legs" that form a rectangle (two legs and the runway form one side, with the remaining legs forming three more sides).

In 2005, the then new event of Mixed Relay (two legs done by women, two legs by men) was arranged separately from the ordinary Championships.

Instead of two legs, this transforming robot has four legs with wheels.

Although the two legs are spaced a bit far apart from each other, the TV doesn’t wobble, and cable management is provided by grooves on the back and clips found on both legs.

Socialism is alive and well in this new living arrangement we’re all adapting to: four legs good, two legs just as good and what have you.

We are right and you are wrong just on the lines of “Four legs good, Two legs bad’”, the famous analogy used by George Orwell in his famous novel ’Animal Farm’ exposing the authoritarian tenets and hypocrisy of the communists.

What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening?

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Eventually, these are replaced with the maxims, "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others", and "Four legs good, two legs better!" as the pigs become more human.

The number of legs was reduced as microprocessor technology advanced, and there are now a number of robots that can walk on two legs.

These commandments are also distilled into the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad!" which is primarily used by the sheep on the farm, often to disrupt discussions and disagreements between animals on the nature of Animalism.

This issue was addressed by swapping the positions of the two legs every few hundred yards with a cross-over, thus ensuring that both legs had equal interference induced and allowing common-mode rejection to do its work.

When alarmed it may lower its body, withdraw the forward two legs straight rearward into a defensive position, withdraw the rearmost pair of legs into a position for lunging forward, and stand motionless with pedipalps raised.

And after reducing the deficit to just two pins at the end of leg three, Farmers pulled away in the remaining two legs to secure victory.

The figure includes two additional bear paws and can be posed on all fours or standing on two legs.

The League Two playoff final is on 19 May, the day after Lewington’s birthday, and if MK Dons prevail against Crawley over two legs, the first of which is on Monday in Sussex, they will reach the Wembley finale.

Two other primarily distance runners, Allison Rabbani `25 and Grace Charron `26, ran the middle two legs.

Describing the robber as having a “dark complexion” is like saying he has two arms and two legs.

On Tuesday night, a child found a inside Barretto Point Park in the Hunts Point section, which reportedly contained two arms and two legs.

In 2005 the women biathletes did the first two legs, and the men did the following two, while in 2006 the sequence was woman man woman man.

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