four-legged

Example Sentences

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The four-legged felines were rumoured to have had a long-running feud, with highly publicised spats during their overlapping time in Westminster.

From BBC

"This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies," says Arjan Mann, assistant curator of fossil fishes and early tetrapods at the Field Museum in Chicago and co-lead author of the study.

From Science Daily

I imagined Claire accidentally-on-purpose tripping me as we lined up to go inside from the playground, so all of the classes going in and all of the classes going out saw me lying on the ground, flat on my face, with my arms and legs sticking out like a four-legged starfish, blood pouring out of my knees and elbows and a bump the size of a melon coming out of my forehead.

From Literature

There she saw it, plain as day, a four-legged table walking along with the light, weaving in and out among the tombstones.

From Literature

She encourages pet owners to have their partner see an allergist before giving up on their four-legged friend.

From The Wall Street Journal