Example Sentences

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Then the researchers calculated how various limb phases, or measurements of the time lag between forefeet and hindfeet, fit onto the trackways.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 2, 2022

"They were all typical forefeet impressions as if the animal had just been barely kicking bottom."

From Fox News • Jan. 28, 2020

After all, goes the theory, if we were barefoot, and our feet and bodies were not ravaged by years of misuse and disuse, we would run on our forefeet like the Tarahumara Indians.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2014

They wanted to land lightly on their forefeet, or they wouldn’t be in FiveFingers, but there was a disconnect between their intentions and their actual movements.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

He went to snorting and shaking his horns and pawing up the dry dirt with his forefeet.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson