Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.
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Examples for "longlegs"
Examples for "longlegs"
1Some scientists believe that climate change is making the daddy-longlegs more common here.
2But the sight of countless daddy longlegs scuttling for cover did.
3This wreckage is as close as I care to come to a daddy-longlegs.
4A big daddy-longlegs scuttled toward a refuge under the pool table.
5A daddy longlegs was high-stepping it up my sleeve.
1They had come to an area of scrubby brush on stilt roots.
2I stepped onto the dock and looked up at the stilt house.
3And the red land-crabs, on their stilt-like legs, crept nearer and nearer.
4Hundreds have lived in traditional wooden stilt homes by its banks for decades.
5John Enderby reined up his horse and looked the stilt-walker in the face.
1Perhaps the long-legs will define their own fate-andours-regardlessof our wishes.
2From out of the dusk-darkened snowfall came the largest of the long-legs.
3Is it true a full salt bag was rescued by a long-legs?
4Many gave credit to the long-legs for the colony's good fortune.
5He watched helplessly as the long-legs carried away the limp form.
1These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.
Translations for Himantopus stilt