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How to use short-legged in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word short-legged? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Long-legged animals with longer strides maintain contact with the ground for more time during each step than do short-legged creatures.
The placid, short-legged Ryelands suited the purpose, but have not been kept by the Royal Family since those days.
They were all short-legged and plantigrade, and they had five toes on each foot, a primitive feature.
Short-legged hoppers rely on the release of stored energy in a rapid catapult action, Burrows explains in his paper.
They found one-a mutation of a single gene, which seems to be responsible for the majority of short-legged dogs' stumpiness.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Indian sambar deer looks like a short-legged big-bodied understudy of our American elk.
The turnspit dog Only an especially resilient, docile and short-legged breed of dog would be willing and able to undertake this thankless task.
The stout, short-legged turnstone is the most cosmopolitan of birds.
He was an ill-favoured, undersized, gruff sailor of fifty, coarsely hairy, short-legged, long-armed, resembling an elderly ape.
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