Sentence examples for like a leg from inspiring English sources

Phelps shook Seacrest off like a leg cramp.

It's not a body part, like a leg or an eye; it's a psychological flaw that's been made physical.

Next, she knitted what looked like a leg warmer for a stop sign down the street; from there she slowly infiltrated Houston with her stitchery.

Rosen says that, at least early on, this movement is a reflex, like a leg that jerks when tapped by a doctor's rubber mallet.

"So I drove over, had a look at it, and sure enough, it did seem like a leg bone of a large, extinct elephant.

Another Wyss team is developing an assistive device for children with cerebral palsy and other forms of brain injury that isn't stiff and awkward like a leg brace but instead is as soft and lightweight as clothing.

His hurried, over-busy action allows him to conceal a zooter – also known as the slider or nothing ball – that looks like a leg-break but skids through at pace.

Next was Courtney Walsh, tall once more, wide of the crease and angling the ball in to the body, only for the occasional one to hold up like a leg-cutter.

Test cricket also benefited from these new techniques and from the new era of creativity, not least from the introduction of the doosra, a delivery disguised to look like an off-spinner that actually turns away from the right-handed batsman like a leg-spinner.

However the England bowler, Alec Bedser wrote "It was when I was bowling to Sid at Sydney that I first discovered that I could move the ball to leg by use of my wrist and fingers...I held the ball in the same manner as a leg-break bowler with the fingers across the seam...and on pitching I was surprised to see the ball go away like a leg-break.

The lowest layer consists of control modules performing elementary actions, like moving a leg up, down, left or right to achieve the elementary swing and stance motions for individual legs.