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Examples of forepaw in a Sentence
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At the Chelsea production offices, an elevator door opened and there was Bing, magisterial in every respect: a lean, muscular hundred and forty-five pounds and, by the prop department’s tape measure, forty-two inches tall from his forepaws to the top of his skull.
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Startled from its slumber, the tennis ball-sized silky anteater raises its forepaws defensively like a boxer.
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James Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
The Telefol say that this story explains why ground cuscuses have four digits on each forepaw.
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Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 3 Dec. 2020
Observers have even reported seeing domestic cats trap two cicadas at once, one under each forepaw.
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Jillian Mock, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1782, in the meaning defined above
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“Forepaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forepaw. Accessed 11 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
forepaw
noun
fore·paw
-ˌpȯ
: the paw of a foreleg
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