Sentence examples for curved legs from inspiring English sources

The compass and divider have straight legs; the caliper has curved legs.

Chairs had curved legs, and sofas had rolled arms and generous upholstery.

The outside caliper has inwardly curved legs that measure the diameters of solids created by rotating tools, such as lathe-turned objects; the inside caliper has outwardly curved legs for measuring bores.

This developed into a stool that had more solid double curved legs; examples were found at Pompeii.

The klismos chair was lighter and had a curved back and plain, sharply curved legs, indicating a great mastery of wood-working.

Curule chair, Latin Sella Curulis, a style of chair reserved in ancient Rome for the use of the highest government dignitaries and usually made like a campstool with curved legs.

Choreographically, it's repetitive and slickly cheap: in quick spurts, dancers wind and unwind in corkscrew patterns, using the momentum of curving legs or straight arms to etch exaggerated shapes in space.

And when artisans try to be more creative in their designs, too often they come up with kitschy whimsy, like Dan Dailey's "Female Figurative," a bronze and glass floor lamp in the shape of a rubbery, geometricized woman, or Craig Nutt's "Onion Blossom" table with feet carved to resemble onion bulbs and curving legs painted green.

Together they developed the "Swag Leg" collection of chairs, characterized by four elegantly curved metal legs.

The chair's curved saber legs were inspired by Greco-Roman models.

The wafer-thin top and long peglike legs of the Settler dining table ($1,303), available in brown or white, offset the outwardly curving lower legs of its chair ($381), available also in black.