Example Sentences

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Whatever the weather, those frosty cross-country men still take to the woods like splayfooted deer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Venturi came out for the final 18, splayfooted and staggering.

From Time Magazine Archive

We splash forward, following the innkeeper's lurching, splayfooted stride.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Yet, after all, are not my old splayfooted slippers much more desirable affairs?—No?—You are willing to endure the pain, because of the looks.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

It is the greatest horseback poem in the literature of the world: compared to this, Paul Revere's Ride is the amble of a splayfooted nag.

From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by Phelps, William Lyon