on all fours

ADVERB
  1. on hands and knees
    he got down on all fours to play with his grandson
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How To Use on all fours In A Sentence

  • In remorse, he vowed to live like an animal, crawling on all fours and eating only grass, until his sins were expiated. Masterful Engravers
  • Now there's an opportunity for getting on all fours in a hard-headed, tough-minded way, with a government which is trying to do the right sort of thing.
  • The ornithopod dinosaurs that left these tracks may have been quadrupedal, walking on all fours.
  • An extraordinary sculpted figure created by a dancer walking backwards on all fours, with a bulbous proboscis at one end and a long tail at the other, may be a lizard; I wasn't sure.
  • The Byzantines would have entered the great tented hall on all fours, and backed out bottom-first. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • He rather acrobatically leapt down, landing lightly on all fours.
  • But the pair end up in fits of giggles after one of the aerobic routines leaves them down on all fours! The Sun
  • An argument, then, of this kind is the most incisive, viz. the one that puts its conclusion on all fours with the propositions asked; and second comes the one that argues from premisses, all of which are equally convincing: for this will produce an equal perplexity as to what kind of premiss, of those asked, one should demolish. On Sophistical Refutations
  • The baby was crawling about on all fours.
  • he got down on all fours to play with his grandson
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