Example Sentences

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"It rediscovered that legs are a good way to move around on land. Legged locomotion is, in fact, the most efficient form of terrestrial movement."

From Science Daily • Oct. 3, 2023

Legged robots would be useless if they could not stand or walk.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

Legged robots have been difficult to build for decades, but advances in a range of connected fields — including sensors, motors, control software, and machine vision — are making them viable for the first time.

From The Verge • Jul. 17, 2019

Later I could not help myself – just had to watch Eight Legged Freaks and Arachnophobia.

From Scientific American • Oct. 15, 2012

Observe that this Composition be of the swiftest and largest deep Mouth'd Dog, the slowest and middle-siz'd, and the shortest Legged slender Dog.

From The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence by Howlett, Robert