Example sentences for: leg

How can you use “leg” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on.

  • Some have been retained by becoming standard, often because there is no other convenient or adequately descriptive standard term for the same thing, like Charley horse for a leg cramp; others are genuinely standard words but were applied in a slang context, like chassis for a woman's body; many are not frequent enough to have bored their users sufficiently to drop them, like chew out for scold; some might have been dropped by those who are in, only to be picked up by the squares to make themselves appear to be in, like cheeba for (a) cannabis (cigarette).

  • When Inman is seduced, for instance, he places his hand on the woman's leg, high up.

  • A horseman held a "twitch" that covered her mouth, while another man held her left front leg with a strap.

  • As a wedding present, Davis had the name "Renny" and a picture of Cupid tattooed on her leg.


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