Sentence examples for calf from inspiring English sources

He and my father had pitched their tent in the stolen corner of a farmer's lot, and so it was from inside the fence that my brother saw, not 10 feet away from him, the newborn calf slither on to the grass, unfurl its legs, and stand.

England will be without Jack Colback, however, after the Newcastle midfielder failed to recover from a calf problem and returned to Tyneside for treatment.

Denis Thatcher famously muttered: "Be careful, dear, or you'll have a dead calf on your hands".

When Thatcher's big chance came with Maggie, she wasn't about to let it slip: she held on to the calf for 13 minutes, solicitously asking the assembled photographers whether they had all the pictures they needed.

The only sour note for the Tigers was a calf injury to Chris Knights midway through the second quarter.

Diego Costa remains hamstrung, while Loïc Rémy – formerly of these parts and a scorer of winning goals in his current team's previous two matches – had succumbed to a "small injury" to his calf.

There were even more heated debates about abortion, and though faith is still a strong part of Irish values in this, there is a cultural element too: agricultural societies regarded infertility as failure, and "abortion" traditionally meant a cow had failed to calf.

Beckham's crime, if you do need reminding, was to give Diego Simeone a light flick on the calf in retaliation for being flattened during a World Cup game with Argentina.

Sergio Ramos laboured in defensive midfield while Gareth Bale, having just returned from a calf injury, was peripheral.

Hemlines around the midi length dominated, with fringed skirts, coats and frilled dresses all stopping mid-calf.

From the mother-and-calf humpback skeletons that hang like talismans over Sydney's Darling Harbour to the living whales which swim up and down the continent's coasts on their twice-annual migratory routes, there's a real and emotional attachment to these southern leviathans.