Her voice had the right twang, her eyes the right roll, her haunches the right swing.
They pinched her haunchesand attacked her in unheard-of ways.
She swung her haunches and arched her eyes with the best of them.
With haunches far under him, front feet straight before, belly scrubbing the brush, he battled to overcome the awful impetus his body had received up above.
At his cry the others set their ponies back on haunches and, following the Mexican, who now led, cursing VB and their weakening mounts, they commenced the climb.
He was not long in his place before Gorilla came in with a huge lot of ripe fruit, and after making himself comfortable on his haunches with a great bunch before him he rocked himself to and fro, saying while he munched: "Ha, ha!
Perhaps, as they came along, they had shot a turkey or a brace of ducks, or a deer, from whose fat haunches they have cut the tenderest venison.
Haunches of venison, prairie chickens, and trout from the stream, were emitting their savory odors, as they were turned on their spits before the glowing embers.
Then he remembered the haunches of venison left hanging to cool.
He saw them settle down in circles with a quiver of the haunches that meant they were going to stay, and so he climbed to a higher crotch, settled his back comfortably, and went to sleep.
He lowered himself to hishaunches and proceeded to tug vigorously.
From his haunches he went to his knees and from that position he stretched out his legs and sat flat on the grass.
But I had no fear of dogs, and I called him again cheerily, and at that he sank on his haunches and set back his head and howled and yelled as I had never heard any dog give tongue before.
This causes cracking, but, as soon as the haunches have been pressed out against the solid material, the cracking usually ceases, unless the pressure has been sufficiently heavy to cause collapse.
She will imperceptibly leave the saddle at every stride, which, in a slow measured canter, will be reduced to a sort of rubbing motion, just sufficient to ease the slight jolt caused by the action of the haunches and hind legs.
She always thought of him as no higher than that, seated back on his haunches and smoking his pipe.
Here were a thousand unkempt haunches undulating in the marsh like the ocean as a storm approaches.
And the mountain of flesh would be lifted--it was carried as lightly by the finely-feathered legs and the broad haunches as if the firm avoirdupois were so much gossamer tissue.
And he merits his name, my lady," his driver announced with grave pride, as he looked at the huge haunches with a loving eye.
On their mottled haunches this bit of color made their polished coats to gleam like unto a lizards' skin.
The Limbs; the shoulders and arms; the haunches and legs.
The shoulders and arms are the origin of prehension, whilst the haunches and legs form the origin of support and progression.
Near these skins were the haunches of caribou meat, and so close to him that he might have reached out and touched it was Bram's club.
If the horse do not advance with sufficient speed, or do not bring up his haunches well, the animations used at starting him are to be repeated.
The firmness of the hand should be increased, the body be thrown back, the reins drawn to the body, and the horse's haunches pressed forward by the leg and whip, so that he may be brought to bear on the bit.
Occasionally one or the other seated itself upon its haunches and, throwing back its head, sent forth its mournful howls.
Haunches of venison were dried on the branches of trees above the reach of prowling wolves, and fires were kindled beneath them which it was believed would last throughout the coming night.
Two movements he made while the buckskin sat back upon his haunchesand gathered his muscles for a forward spring.
Up to a certain height they were completely bearded with seaweed; above this their steep haunches glittered at points like polished armour.
There was but a single figure beside the small fire--that of a man squatting upon his haunches roasting something above the flames.
On opening the door of the last car that animal was discovered sitting on his haunches and deliberately pulling the cord, and the elephant seemed to derive as much pleasure from it as a child would from a new toy.
The first object which met my eyes was a jackrabbit, sitting on his haunches not more than two rods from the trail we were following.
She saw the bear sitting on his haunches some twenty feet away, looking steadily upward, as though he were a charred stump, which could never change its posture or position.
When he found the child had eluded him for the time, he sat down on his haunches and looked upward, as though he intended to wait till she would be compelled to descend and surrender herself.
Still the cub kept going, and stopped with his haunches on the first branch.
There sat a huge black bear on his haunches holding up a great steel trap which clutched one of his paws.
In the First course of the Dome of St Paul’s of London, a continuous chain had been sunk into a groove, in order to bind the haunches of the arch more firmly together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haunches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: behind; butt; buttocks; croup; crupper; hip; posterior; rear; rump
