Sentence examples for half a leg from inspiring English sources

Half a leg later, I gave up.

One of the carnivalesque ne'er-do-wells is missing half a leg.

His truculent father, Bert, was a Liverpool-born railwayman who lost half a leg at Dunkirk.

Compared with losing half a leg and nearly losing his other leg, a slightly shaken-up brain did not register as a concern.

If you hang out at candidates' headquarters on election night here, you always need a drink sooner or later, but you are charged an arm and half a leg.

It often gives rise to a surreal quality that appears menacing: "And what use am I, / half‑witted, unpicked, flaked / out, half a leg, a spewing mouth, brittle hair, / scooped-out heart crazed on the floor, / racked with side effects?" Mingling English, a "mongrel and magpie" Scots, and Orcadian, Harry Giles's Tonguit (Freight, £8.99) begins with a bold ars poetica.

He made Saturday's performance sound like the usual, nothing more, even though Thomas did not play and receiver Josh Huff missed part of the first half with a leg injury.

Mind you, the movie's weakness for outrage strays far beyond the verbal: once a director has decided to show bullet holes blasted through children's foreheads as well as adult ones, and the lower half of a leg lying like meat on a street, I guess no one is going to stop him.

Leicester Square Theatre, WC2, Sat Winning the BBC new comedy award may not be a guarantee of fame, but it isn't half a useful leg-up.

Graebner has been moving forward, too, and he has stopped for half a second, legs apart, poised, to see what will happen.

In each condition, half of the sentences included an arm-related action word (e.g., "John grasped the idea" and "John grasped the object") and the other half contained a leg-related action word (e.g., "Pablo kicked the habit," which means "to stop doing something that is difficult to stop doing," and "Pablo kicked the ball").