Sentence examples for planted legs from inspiring English sources

Ever since Prunella Scales unforgettably incarnated her (stolidly planted legs, dangling bag) in Alan Bennett's marvellous A Question of Attribution, a ripple has run through spectators at the notion of seeing the Queen tread the boards.

Matic prodded them level, Jasmin Handanovic did wonderfully well to deny Hazard and Costa before the Belgian was tripped by Viler's planted leg.

It is one of the most wince-inducing sights in rugby: a player being cleared out at a ruck by an onrushing opponent, regardless of whether his planted leg is trapped or not.

Pivot on the spot and force it all into that planted leg, and headbutt it through Marco Materazzi.

Then sink (think half squat) on the planted leg as you reach and fully extend your arm.

A soccer player with power bends his planted leg in order to generate enough force with the striking foot to fire the ball into the net.

Your planted leg should be facing forward, only slightly bent at the knee.

Slowly lift the other foot off the floor and using the planted leg, push your body up and then back down to your starting position.

Use the inside of your kicking foot to drag the ball back behind your planted leg and into the open space opposite the direction in which you would have kicked it.

Carney joined the team after Tynes injured his left knee, on his planting leg, in the preseason.

Last season, Daluiso showed the effects of having knee surgery on his planting leg the year before, and by the Super Bowl the Giants were unsure if Daluiso had regained the leg strength for his kicks.