LEG in a Sentence

Learn LEG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

367 example sentences for LEG, such as:

1. He hurt his leg while playing football.
2. I lost this here leg and this here eye.
3. He scratched the insect bite on his leg.
4. The cat snoozled its head against my leg.
5. Always immobilize a broken leg immediately.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
leg
 n.  one of the supports for a piece of furniture
 n.  a limb of an animal used for supporting the body and for walking
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It's easier to walk with a leg wound than with dysentery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Gerald moved toward her, silent as a sleepwalker, his stiff leg dragging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  "We'll both take a leg and drag him," said Melanie firmly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  One foot in the shortened stirrup and the other leg crooked about the pommel in an approximation of a side saddle, she set out across the fields toward Mimosa, steeling herself to find it burned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  One night soon after this, he tapped on Scarlett's door long after the house was asleep and sheepishly exhibited a leg peppered with small shot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Pork beamed under the praise and gingerly rubbed his bandaged leg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  "I think so too," said the one-eyed man and slapped his leg with a laugh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Some of them lacked an arm or a leg or an eye, many had scars which would ache in rainy weather if they lived for seventy years but these seemed small matters now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  Yet, none of these things seemed to bother him any more than the leg he had left in Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  Though he had only one leg, he could work faster than Pork.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  She heard the thump- thump of his wooden leg in the hall outside the office and then he stopped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  Will sat down on the sofa and rubbed the stump of his leg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  The man who was making his way across the back yard stumped, like Will Benteen, on a wooden leg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  All she knew was that his voice bespoke the mountains to the north and that he had been in the army and had lost both leg and eye shortly before the surrender.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  I lost this here leg and this here eye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
16  She nearly fell down by stumbling over my stretched leg.
17  The old lady fell down in the street and broke her leg.
18  She was awake during the operation on her leg.
19  The cat snoozled its head against my leg.
20  The military hospital will fit any wounded soldier for a false leg.
21  He hurt his leg while playing football.
22  Always immobilize a broken leg immediately.
23  The impact of the tennis ball really stung his leg.
24  When I was a little kid I rolled down a hill and broke my leg.
25  She stabbed him in the leg with a kitchen knife.
26  She had a sudden painful cramp in her left leg.
27  The flamingoes balanced gracefully on one leg.
28  He scratched the insect bite on his leg.
29  I had been lying awkwardly and my leg had gone numb.
30  I was in excruciating pain and one leg wouldn't move.