haunch

How To Use haunch In A Sentence

• He rises quickly from the water, licks his haunches, and stands erect on short back legs.
• After that came the famous Valenti pork shank, an imposing haunch of meat, braised in whole flagons of wine, supported by garden vegetables and a mound of polenta.
• Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches. Brave New World
• I sat back on my haunches, breathing heavily, and casting what I could only imagine to be the fiercest glower of animosity I'd ever bestowed upon another human being.
• It means we can never sit back on our haunches and think we have it made. Christianity Today
• And yes, what I thought was a dull, level waistline turns out to be the top of a gentle wedge, and what came across as a slabby rear quarter is a subtly-bulged haunch hugging the rear wheel tightly.
• At this time of year, we are often the recipients of a freshly shot brace of pheasant or a wild haunch of venison.
• In a cottage garden the dog, high on his haunches at the length of his chain, cocked his ears towards the huswife in the wash-house, hoping against hope for a miracle. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
• Lean ‘collops’ - thin steaks - are cut from a haunch and larded with strips of salt bacon fat.
• It may need to be as vegan as a freshly plucked dandelion leaf, or as bloody as a rare grilled haunch of venison.