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Example sentences for "three legs"

  • But I never saw a horse go on three legs.

  • Dogs can go on three legs, if one is broken, though they can't go very fast," said Teddy.

  • Oh, it isn't far, and he can go on three legs," said Teddy.

  • A horse can't go on three legs like a dog.

  • But poor Splash was quite lame, and could only walk on three legs.

  • For several days Splash had to go about on three legs, holding the lame one, with the cloth on, up in the air.

  • The act of walking is unfavorable for accurate observation, though, if the animal walks on three legs, the decision is easy to reach.

  • Why do Highland terriers so often run on three legs, particularly when bent on any mischief?

  • I never had a Highland terrier who did not hop along constantly on three legs, keeping one of the hind legs up as if to give it rest.

  • He hid himself behind a rock, and saw a huge bear, limping on three legs to a flat piece of rock, upon which it seated itself, and on raising one of its fore paws Ruhe discovered that it was encircled by the lost trap.

  • Repeat this a few times, always putting up the same foot, and he will soon learn to travel on three legs so that you can drive him some distance.

  • This will leave the horse standing on three legs; you can now handle him as you wish, for it is utterly impossible for him to kick in this position.

  • Repeat this a few times, always putting up the same foot, and he will soon learn to travel on three legs, so that you can drive him some distance.

  • The near fore-leg being securely strapped, and the horse, if so inclined, secured from biting by a wooden bit, the next step is to make him hop about on three legs.

  • Over there is a little lamb that looks like my Three Legs, Aunt Miriam," said she.

  • It runs on three legs, and it does not see very well.

  • Stand up, Three Legs," said Ezra, putting his lamb on the ground and showing Naomi its pitifully shrunken limb.

  • Once in the sledge and started on three legs all is well and the fourth leg can be released.

  • It seems to be getting harder rather than easier to get him into the traces; the last two turns, he has had to be thrown, as he is unmanageable even on three legs.

  • If not too late he is then put into the sledge, but this can only be done by tying up one of his forelegs; when harnessed and after he has hopped along on three legs for a few paces, he is again allowed to use the fourth.

  • Bruff piteously, and then, trotting on three legs to the water's edge, he began to bark furiously.

  • I must try and see how much of a hunter I shall make on three legs.

  • Nero could not step on his paw, and he had to limp around on three legs.

  • Up he sprang, and, running on three legs, and making no noise, off through the dark jungle he hurried.

  • You will have to run on three legs, but you have done that before.

  • Keep a corner for the Meailley at the 'Three Legs,'" said Dan.

  • There was to be a herring breakfast that morning at the "Three Legs of Man," to celebrate the opening of the fishing season.

  • He jumped up again instantly, and went away on three legs.

  • I gave it a raking shot, to which it fell, but got up again, and was going away on three legs, when I dropped it with a bullet in the neck.

  • He went gallantly away on three legs, but I certainly did not doubt but that I should be more than a match for him with the horse's four.

  • In three legs, the nerve does not perforate M.

  • In three legs, the anterior division gives twigs into M.

  • In three legs (of different specimens), a minute twig from the middle tibial division passes posteriorly deep to M.

  • In three legs, the anterior branch of the anterior division is cutaneous and the posterior branch supplies M.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three legs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    three bays; three blades; three cards; three cents; three chapters; three equal; three equal vertical bands; three estates; three feet; three fifths; three friends; three hard; three legs; three miles from the; three other; three pints; three plates; three quarts; three rods; three rows; three shillings; three squadrons; three table; three turns; three vessels; three wire