Sentence examples for delicate legs from inspiring English sources

As we approach, their big, pig-like forms emerge from the water and walk up the bank on V C surprisingly delicate legs.

They've retained their original shape – rounded back; sticky-up ears; long, delicate legs – as well as much of their individuality and intelligence.

We've been watching the butterflies -- the monarchs, the swallowtails, the silver-spotted skippers -- balance their long delicate legs on the flowerheads, while they stick their long proboscises into one tubular flower after another, getting dusted with pollen.

As an international freelance ballerina, she became famous for her audacity: bending the rules of classical ballet by lifting those steely yet delicate legs to vertiginous heights, and challenging dramatic conventions with her resolutely unsentimental acting.

Suspended beneath eight delicate legs was his brilliant handiwork: a majestic web of ivory silk.

But those escapes were quickly forgotten, and forgiven, when Bell reached his century with a delicate leg glance, then launched Andy Carter for his second six.

Eight decades later, Bradman recalled the innings, "as if it were yesterday", describing it as full of "delicate leg-glances, powerful pulls, cuts and glorious drives" and concluding that it was one of the best innings he had seen in his lifetime.

His Sheraton chairs, tables, and sofas often had delicate, reeded legs, and his Empire pieces had massive claw feet.

They have flat heads with a ruff of lucent pink gills, long slithery bodies, and delicate little legs.

He didn't make a mistake at a fence, didn't bow a tendon, didn't wrench an ankle, didn't fracture one of his delicate front legs, didn't do one of the things on the endless list of mishaps that can befall a thoroughbred in a race.

Delicate antennae, legs, and wings break with the slightest blunder.