Military) Sortir sur les jambes d’un autre, to be confined to barracks or to the guard-room.
Is used by Molière with the signification of to agitate the legs:-- Oui de le voir gambiller les jambes en haut devant tout le monde.
Il a pris ses jambes à son cou = He took to his heels.
The good citizens (and citizenesses too) climbed on to and into the car to see and feel "les jambes nues!
In the case of the Basset a jambes demi-torses, and jambes droites, being generally lighter, their chests do not of course come so low.
The chest, is more expansive in the Basset, than even in the Bull Dog, and should, in the Basset a jambes torses, be not more than two inches from the ground.
The neck, is long, but of great power, and in the Basset a jambes torses, the flews extend very nearly down to the chest.
In the case of the Bassets a jambes demi-torses and jambes droites, being generally lighter, their chests do not, of course, come so low.
The chest is more expansive than even in the Bulldog, and should in the Bassets a jambes torses be not more than two inches from the ground.
The neck is long, but of great power; and in the Basset a jambes torses the flews extend very nearly down to the chest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jambes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
