How to Use forelimb in a Sentence

forelimb

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  • The species gets its name from the two fingers on their forelimb.
    — Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Short forelimbs and longer hind limbs help the leopards leap up to 50 feet in length.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The remains included a head, forelimbs, and part of the chest.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Or lizards hatched in the last year just have more resources, enabling them to grow longer forelimbs.
    — Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2018
  • So lizards with longer forelimbs might have survived better over the past year.
    — Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The fossil would turn out to include six neck vertebrae, part of the right shoulder blade, and most of the right forelimb.
    — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
  • Our hands came from the forelimbs of land vertebrates, which derived from the pectoral fins of fish.
    — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2019
  • Emtech, a 3-year-old colt, had two broken front forelimbs, track owners the Stronach Group said in a news release.
    — Steve Almasy, CNN, 28 Sep. 2019
  • In the 3-year-old colt's sixth career start, Freezing Point pulled up at the 5-furlong pole with a left forelimb injury in a 1-mile dirt track race.
    — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2023
  • This may have freed the creatures’ strong forelimbs—tipped with sharp claws—for defense, allowing them to swivel to and fro.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Canids use a bow to solicit play, crouching on their forelimbs while standing on their hind legs.
    — Marc Bekoff, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • The investigator watched as the dog was injected in the forelimb.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • There was evidence of multiple gashes and punctures in the forelimb and tail, as well as holes and scrapes on the arm, hand bones, and skin in the shape of an arc, much like the shape of crocodile teeth.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Bird wings are muscular, supported by the bones of the forelimb, and most of their aerodynamic shape comes from long feathers.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
  • Epicenter, who finished second in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, pulled up with an injury to his right forelimb.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The creatures in the traps are sirens: eel-like salamanders with big feathery gills, pairs of tiny forelimbs and slightly vacant expressions.
    — Asher Elbein, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • Like a living biplane, Microraptor boasted two sets of wings — that’s four in total, one each on its hind and forelimbs.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • The limbs never dropped below a forelimb-to-femur ratio of 0.4 and remained functional.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2022
  • Fossils show bird-like traits including feathers, light bones, air sacs and three-digit forelimbs.
    — Margi Murphy, Fox News, 26 May 2017
  • Epicenter, considered a strong Horse of the Year favorite with four wins and three seconds, was pulled up by jockey Joel Rosario in the backstretch with an injured right forelimb.
    — Gary B. Graves, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The skull consists of a raptorial-like beak without teeth, while its forelimbs end in long fingers with scimitar-like claws.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The strong forelimb–sharp tooth combination was perfect for pouncing on prey, pinning it down and quickly gouging its throat.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2010
  • For starters, badgers have powerful, heavily muscled forelimbs and long rakes for claws, which allow them to rip through hard, compact dirt.
    — National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Its toes bore curving velociraptor-like claws, while its forelimbs were an odd hybrid of the usual raptor limbs and more penguin-like flippers.
    — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 8 Dec. 2017
  • For example, Harcourt-Smith notes that bears, whose hind legs do not typically make claw impressions, were present in this region at the time, but the team compared the prints with only a bear’s forelimb.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The scientists recovered parts of its skull, lower jaw, neck and back vertebrae, ribs, shoulder and forelimb, back foot and osteoderms.
    — NBC News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Before spraying predators in the face with pungent chemicals, the little creature hops up onto its forelimbs and charges forward.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 May 2017
  • Before spraying predators in the face with pungent chemicals, the little creature hops up onto its forelimbs and charges forward.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • Tyrannosaurs went through a similar shift over time, and so shortening the forelimb seems to be a shared response to becoming a large meat-eating dinosaur with a powerful bite.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • Whereas humans' fingers are fused into hands in the womb with cells that die off before birth, dolphins' flippers are formed by cells that accumulate around their forelimb bones, per Cooper.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023

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