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• Certain South-east Asian snakes are luticoles and have a special side-winding gait for moving over muddy surfaces.From the entry luticole
• Work is proceeding at a steady gait.From the entry proceed
• Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.From the entry lopsided
• Snakes, worms, certain fish, and other limbless creatures are all apodous, while visibly similar creatures (such as millipedes or centipedes) use a different type of movement called a metachronal gait.From the entry apodous
• The study concluded that the most attractive targets were people whose gait was perceived as "nonsynchronous".2017, Michael J. Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs to Know, page 214. From the entry nonsynchronous
• High-heeled shoes are not typically constructed to accommodate the average male's heft, foot size, or gait.2015, Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age, page 55. From the entry high-heeled
• The arguments ended, I would hear Dad's limpy gait coming up the stairs.2014, Betsy Connor Bowen, Croswell Bowen: A Writer's Life, a Daughter's Portrait, page 225. From the entry limpy
• However, Gray Foxes use this gait very often, as do Mule Deer and several shrew species.2012, Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans, Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California, Univ of California Press…. From the entry direct registering
• As for high-heels, they hoist the derrière and make the gait more feminine and physically attractive.2011 July 30, “Baby you can drive my genes”, in The Economist. From the entry derrière
• He walked next to me on his knees, mimicking my gait.2010, Julie Genovese, Nothing Short of Joy, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry dorf
• I would replace my jolly gait with a manly, wide-legged swagger.2007, Jim Tushinski, Jim Van Buskirk, Identity envy: wanting to be who we're not, page 73. From the entry sure up
• She is moving with a regal gait, grasping the arthame, or magic knife.1931, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, chapter 7, in JC Locke, transl., Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy. From the entry athame
• When the limbs are affected, there is a limpiness in gait or a drooping of the wings.1930, The Philippine Journal of Plant Industry, page 315. From the entry limpiness
• The gait of a cerebellar patient in the majority of cases is chiefly trunkal.1923, Nelson loose-leaf living medicine, volume 6, page 438. From the entry trunkal
• Towards them toiled with shuffling gait two ragged wanderers, becindered and begrimed.1921, George Randolph Chester, Lillian Chester, The Son of Wallingford, page 75. From the entry becindered
• Its short hind legs give a most ungainly gait, though it runs with surprising speed when pursued.1901, Wallace Rice, Animals: a Popular Natural History of Wild Beasts, Duffield and Co., published 1909, page 112. From the entry despicability
• He moderated his stramming gait to a stroll.2024 January 2, Maud Wilder Goodwin, Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry stramming
• Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.2008, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse…. From the entry trot
• The testing of stance and gait often provides important clues to the type of disease process that is present.2006, Mark Mumenthaler, Heinrich Mattle, “The Neurological Examination”, in Ethan Taub, transl., Fundamentals of Neurology: An Illustrated…. From the entry stance
• His gait was something between a slouch and a skulk.1987, Lloyd Alexander, chapter 5, in The Illyrian Adventure, New York: Dell, page 32. From the entry skulk
• The gait is slightly wide based, but not reeling.1981, Frank R. Freemon, “Dementia”, in Organic Mental Disease, 1st edition, MTP Press Limited, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry parkinsonoid
• Impatiently turning his caballo's head he started the animal at an easy one-step gait in a southerly direction.1924, Stephen Chalmers, Four in One Westerns, page 10. From the entry caballo
• Having turned about, he kept his horse to a walk, and at this gait the sleighbells tinkled but intermittently.1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 7, in The Magnificent Ambersons. From the entry wanly
• Cavalletti allow more demands to be made on the legs without compromising the quality of the gaits, namely walk, trot, and canter.2018, Ingrid Klimke, Reiner Klimke, Cavalletti for Dressage and Jumping, →ISBN. From the entry cavalletto
• Hip OA is associated with an antalgic gait, one in which the patient overshifts the weight while walking to reduce the pain.2014, Marc C. Hochberg, Alan J. Silman, Josef S. Smolen, Rheumatology, →ISBN, page 1451. From the entry overshift
• Only two footholes are needed due to the wolf's narrow gait, as the hind foot oversteps the front paw print. (Courtesy Oliver Matla) .2012, Toni Shelbourne, The truth about wolves and dogs, page 20. From the entry foothole
• There is a freedom of gait, a heartiness of manner, a hopefulness of expression, a frank courtesy, a liberal-mindedness which impresses me profoundly.2011, Lesley Erickson, Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry liberal-mindedness
• Camels walk with a lurching gait, onomatopoetically called jonjoo in Mongolian (“jon-joo jon-joo jon-joo”), which English might render, less onomatopoetically, as “clump, clump, clump.”2010, Theodore Levin, Where Rivers and Mountains Sing. From the entry onomotopoetically
• Stance and gait are best examined with the patient barefoot; meaningful findings can be obtained only if the patient has enough room to walk in.2006, Mark Mumenthaler, Heinrich Mattle, “The Neurological Examination”, in Ethan Taub, transl., Fundamentals of Neurology: An Illustrated…. From the entry stance
• Dogs have a variety of gaits.2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14. From the entry trot
• This institutional aura is as easy to detect as is the Brixton shuffle which characterises the gait of a man who has been 'inside'.1978, Mark Goulden, Mark My Words!, page 189. From the entry Brixton shuffle
• I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar.1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145. From the entry latrate
• I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously as a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar.circa 1928: Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145. From the entry latrating
• The oxen took up again their quiet processional gait and the old man walked ahead of them, his eyes on the ground.1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: Modern Library, published 1932, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 70. From the entry processional
• He flapped out his arms, pretending they were ostrich wings, stuck out his bottom, and waddled around, bobbing his head in a gifted impression of Lightfoot’s ostrichy gait.2017, Julie Berry, The Emperor’s Ostrich, New York, N.Y.: Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN, pages 259–260. From the entry ostrichy
• They and I stumbled around with staccato gaits, first windsome, then fierce, getting faster and faster until the whole thing resembled some sort of spastic frenzy.1984, John Steakley, Armor. From the entry windsome
• If he is lame in both feet the gait is stilty, the shoulders seem stiff, and, if made to work, he sweats profusely from intense pain.1916, United States Department of Agriculture, Special Report on Diseases of the Horse. From the entry stilty
• All the canines use this gait, but it tends to be for short sections of trail and most often is a transition from a direct-registering trot to a side trot.2012, Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans, Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California, Univ of California Press…. From the entry direct registering
• As they came near, even Marcia could note the sleek, soft look of the men, and their listless, muscleless gait; while their leader's hair and person literally reeked with perfumes.1901, Duffield Osborne, The Lion’s Brood, Part II, Chapter 2. From the entry muscleless

Meaning of gait

1. noun A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.
2. noun One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either naturally or as a result of training.
3. verb To teach a specific gait to a horse.

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Questions about gait in a sentence

How do you use gait in a sentence?

Gait is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.”

What is a short sentence with gait?

“Dogs have a variety of gaits.”

What does gait mean?

Gait means a manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.