How to Use three-legged in a Sentence

three-legged

adjective

• Instead of a three-legged race, there was a one-legged race.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• So, if the Gophers defense was a three-legged stool, that chair fell flat on the floor in 2023.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 25 July 2024
• Maybe the name is short for Pony Express Scripts, but even at that, a three-legged mule could make the trip in half the time.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Revered for guiding, the three-legged crow god surely had my back.
  — Norma Meyer, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024
• The three-legged Boston Terrier bounds with the speed of a jackrabbit.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
• The three-legged ginger kitten would chase, bat and carry it around in her mouth.
  — Rachael O'Connor, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
• But in fact, the original three-legged piece was not an instant hit.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 Aug. 2023
• Retirement savings in the United States were long thought of as a three-legged stool.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• If climate solutions are a three-legged stool, the first leg is to consume less.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
• The two high school teachers loved the three-legged dog at first sight, American Humane said.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024
• My therapist referred to our experience as the three-legged table: the mind, the body, and the soul.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• The three-legged dog stretch works the hamstrings, calves, and shoulders like regular downward dog.
  — Madeline Howard, Women's Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• The intrepid three-legged lion Jacob and his brother Tibu prepare for a hunt.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 July 2024
• Around the same time the couple adopted Dudley, the family mourned the loss of their beloved three-legged French bulldog named Penny.
  — Karen Fratti, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
• In the middle of the warehouse there was a giant chrome submarine — like 40 feet long — and a three-legged cat named Arlene lived inside of it.
  — Jessica Lipsky, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• As the three-legged pup waited for a home, the SPCA hoped he would be matched with a family who could care for his medical needs.
  — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
• Somehow, this story — along with a three-legged Key deer — helps Yancy connect the dots that Christopher and Nick might just be the same person.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
• Viewers cannot get enough of the three-legged puppy, and the clip went viral with over 8.6 million views and more than 1.1 million likes on TikTok in a matter of days.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
• Buy it in side table form…or in a tubular three-legged coffee table that will be the conversation-starter in any space it's parked.
  — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
• The three-legged structure simply cannot stand on its own, because the third part lacks the historical importance of the other two.
  — Paul Kennedy, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2014
• Contrast that with a minimally valuable product—in this case, a three-legged stool.
  — Mark Francis, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
• That same month, a three-legged bear pilfered some White Claw hard seltzers from a Florida family's outdoor fridge.
  — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
• Like a three-legged stool, our democracy is solid, no matter its footing.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2024
• The tax bill is one leg of the Trump administration’s three-legged stool economic plan, built on tariffs, spending cuts and tax cuts.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
• Following her doctor’s visit, Sipe found a three-legged kitten while out picking up some produce at a farm and brought her home.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• Which is why Pete Carroll will likely ask his new right-hand man in Vegas to mine the infinite depths of the internet to find the video of that three-legged dog going full speed.
  — Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 14 May 2025
• Teigen shared that Penny died peacefully in her sleep on Jan. 25, posting an Instagram tribute to the three-legged French bulldog that same day.
  — Toria Sheffield, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
• As Gloria liked to say, Mom could show a three-legged jackrabbit and take home a ribbon.
  — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• The business judgment rule is a three-legged stool.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
• In the nineteen-eighties, Ronald Reagan had seen conservatism as a three-legged stool.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025