Sentence examples for raised leg from inspiring English sources

When she arrives, she wheels her raised leg around until it almost hits him; then she wheels it back again.

Later one raised leg slowly traces a half circle, as in a rond de jambe en l'air, except that here the foot at its end also rotates rapidly.

Stepping plays the low bass of stamping feet against the higher pitches of hands slapping chests, bellies, thighs and hands, sometimes hands that meet underneath a raised leg.

(The raised leg remained just as high, but now my torso turned into profile and plunged low, the kind of change of silhouette in which Petipa specialized).

In Act I the women mostly avoided high extensions of the leg, but then Masiel Alonso, as a peasant girl, did a solo in which her raised leg in arabesque kept reaching way above her head.

The raised leg is held at a 90° angle to the body in back or in front (attitude an avant); the knee may be either well bent or nearly straight (attitude allongée).

(As someone once pointed out, those raised legs looked like a row of handlebars).

Utthanpadasana (raised legs pose).

Furniture with thinner bodies on raised legs reveal more space to the eye.

Both lower limbs were trained using the following exercises in this order: knee presses, bottle knee presses, extended leg raises, leg extensions, wall squats and hamstring curls.

Positive results have been attributed to active stretching exercises, squats, cycle ergometry, isometric quadriceps exercises, active leg raises, leg press, and ascending and descending climbing exercises.