wooden leg
Example Sentences
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"She climbed two flights of steep metal steps with her wooden leg to tell me she was in the audience and loved the show."
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
She used her good leg as a snowplow and dragged the seven-pound wooden leg she’d nicknamed “Cuthbert” behind her, according to Judith Pearson’s 2005 biography of Hall, “The Wolves at the Door.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2018
As the pirate drops to the ocean floor, he struggles to untangle his wooden leg from rigging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2017
After the ordeal, army medics outfitted the wounded bird with a small wooden leg to help it walk.
From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2015
Adam’s father Cyrus was something of a devil—had always been wild—drove a two-wheeled cart too fast, and managed to make his wooden leg seem jaunty and desirable.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
