go on all fours
Example Sentences
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He explained how a person could be constantly tripping over debris and obstructions and at times having to go "on all fours" to try to get through the tunnel.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
There were many places so steep and stony that they were often obliged to go on all fours, and Klein, who was both weak and nervous, stood in constant danger of his life.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Gilson, Charles
Eudena, watching him with a fearful admiration from the cover of the bracken, saw him presently go on all fours, and so proceed again.
From Tales of Space and Time by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
He would go on all fours snuffling along the gutters for food and when he came to a morsel of offal he would fall upon it and devour it ravenously.
From The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Train, Arthur Cheney
At first he made men and pigs just alike, but his brothers remonstrated with him, so he beat down the pigs to go on all fours and made men walk upright.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
