How To Use On all fours In A Sentence
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In remorse, he vowed to live like an animal, crawling on all fours and eating only grass, until his sins were expiated.
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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.
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The ornithopod dinosaurs that left these tracks may have been quadrupedal, walking on all fours.
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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.
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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
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He rather acrobatically leapt down, landing lightly on all fours.
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But the pair end up in fits of giggles after one of the aerobic routines leaves them down on all fours!
The Sun
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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
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The baby was crawling about on all fours.
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he got down on all fours to play with his grandson
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It strikes me as curious that a relatively new car limps into the garage, rasping and wheezing like a parched man crawling on all fours towards a mirage of an oasis, but then pulls off purring contentedly like the cat that got the cream.
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The rain was incessant but the wind proved as difficult and I was on all fours at one point just to get through it.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the ground they proceed in frog-like hops, or occasionally walk on all fours.
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Dropping quickly on all fours, I glanced towards the open window and managed to glimpse the last of her tabi - she had vanished into the shadows of the night.
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Underneath is a cloaked and bearded figure on all fours with a pair of compasses in one hand.
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Kneel on all fours with arms straight and wrists in line with shoulders.
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It was crouched on all fours, its strangely formed hands with three fingers and a thumb acting as the forefeet on a crocodile, while the tail slithered like a snake's would.
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His duty clear, the Airedale lifted off on all fours, jaw set for maximum bite, and tore into the stranger's leg.
CORMORANT
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As he passed through the shadows cast by the feathery branches of a punga tree, he became a tiger, padding toward her on all fours.
Once An Angel
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Your leechcraft ere long would have had me walking on all fours like a beast.
The Lord of the Rings
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You'll have to get down on all fours to clean behind the toilet.
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But the pair end up in fits of giggles after one of the aerobic routines leaves them down on all fours!
The Sun
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He asked if I wanted a drink and got down on all fours while he looked in the mini-bar.
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Enter Dad, in flannel pyjamas, scrabbling across the floor on all fours.
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It boasts such authentic facilities as containers of organic grain, a water tube which guests can sip, and a double bed accessible only by a step ladder and a quick scramble on all fours.
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All right, Charles, you don't have to grovel on all fours!
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Two rounds later, though, Tyson was where he had never been before - on all fours, groping for his gumshield.
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He'd crawled on all fours through this muck, puking like an overfed Roman in the vomitorium, hadn't he?
SACRAMENT
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I just have this image in my head of a quiet suburban street being overrun by Aliens loping on all fours over the tarmac.
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Dove through the sliding doors and whammed them shut, crouching on all fours, heart beating wildly, peering out at him.
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All right, Charles, you don't have to grovel on all fours!
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I still have some original sketches: in one he's very upright and ogreish, in another he's on all fours and looks like a wild boar.
How we made: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler on The Gruffalo
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She easily rotates her body, turning so she isn't vertical anymore, but horizontal, facing me and on all fours, her claws dug into the wood and drawing sap.
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But the protoceratops was a small dinosaur which walked on all fours and was likely to have been a clumsy creature with short legs and a long heavy body.
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He flexes his six-pack in awkward contrapposto, while holding a leash attached to a man on all fours wearing a dog collar.
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Frankie did a little caper around the back of the van, on all fours like a demented monkey.
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It's there in the lyrics of Christina Aguilera, the styling of Britney Spears and even the poses of mannequins in Madame Tussaud's (where a waxwork of Kylie Minogue depicts her on all fours with her bottom poking into the air).
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You can kneel down in that and then on all fours you can retch your heart out; you will go better without it.
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No sooner do I lie him flat when, whoosh, he's on all fours again and crawling off at top speed.
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And the funny thing, as admitted to myself, was that evolution teaches in no uncertain voice that man did run on all fours ere he came to walk upright, that astronomy states flatly that the speed of the revolution of the earth on its axis has diminished steadily, thus increasing the length of day, and that the seismologists accept that all the islands of Hawaii were elevated from the ocean floor by volcanic action.
The Water Baby
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And he got down on all fours, and he was kind of portly at the time - like he is now, actually - and his stomach was peeking out from beneath his shirt.
Russ Grimm and the origins of "The Hogs"
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Dad used to say I would bop to the beat on all fours when I was a baby.
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About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits.
The Rebel Worlds
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All right, Charles, you don't have to grovel on all fours!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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I stumbled, ending up on all fours on the minty coolness of the lawn, but I was back up instantaneously, perhaps before she'd even noticed.
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The baby was crawling about on all fours.
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He would get down on all fours and howl like a wolf, or suddenly rear up like a cornered bear, bellowing and swatting at the air.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Caked in cracked dirt and seeping sweat, crawling on all fours, suffocating from the heat, and trying to avoid startled lizards and bats, I cannot help but feel that I am glad they widened the tunnels for us.
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Sometimes an episiotomy can be avoided simply by choosing a different position for the delivery, for example, kneeling, on all fours, or a supported squat.
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Squatting on all fours like some great beast of the forest, Erik shook his mane of wild auburn hair, scratched his woolly beard, and flared his nostrils as he took heavy breaths of cool air.
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Of course, the 'stairs' only exist when someone has cut them into the deep snow; we'll be scrambing on all fours over large boulders today, resisting the temptation to turn around and look behind us, as our higher centers of gravity from the heavy packs only add to the precariousness of our struggle.
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After personally attacking me for allegedly being "uncivil," Honig then asserted that the Congressman's "position is on all fours with the Open Internet policy endorsed by the labor unions, all the minority intergovernmental organizations and virtually every national civil rights organization except ColorofChange.
James Rucker: A Key, Unknown Player in Civil Rights Groups' Attack on the Open Internet
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The Turkish children featured in the documentary show what I'd call facultative quadrupedalism; they walk on all fours out of necessity.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Hillis never got to grips with thinning out vegetable drills with a hoe, and did it on all fours, tying an old sack round her knees to save her trousers.
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Our head-torches lit the way as we slowly scrambled up the scree on all fours, the milky way a smudge in the sky easily discernible above the craggy peaks.
Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya: 5,000 m, Mice, Buffalo and Evil Eyes
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You can kneel down in that and then on all fours you can retch your heart out; you will go better without it.
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