How to Use hind in a Sentence

hind

noun
  • Deer have scent glands near the hock of each hind leg.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • One of her hind legs dragged behind her.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Josh moving them hind legs, bro.
    — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Cats dancing on their hind legs dressed in streetwear.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In this instance, the fact that bears can walk on their hind legs didn’t hurt.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Males carry venomous spurs on their hind legs.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Up on their hind legs, sitting around me, staring at me.
    — Sabienna Bowman, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Their hind tracks have larger, longer pads with five fingers and claws.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
  • His right hind leg healed, but then the disease went after both his front hooves.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Doctors also said the pup would never use her hind legs again.
    — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Prizes include a side of beef, hind quarter and front quarter.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Squirrels stand on their hind legs and fix me with hard stares, like miniature critics.
    — Harvey Dickson, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Each kitten had its hind legs bound together.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • These reproductives will have two sets of wings with the front pair longer than the hind pair.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
  • These reproductives will have two sets of wings with the front pair longer than the hind pair.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The species is able to climb upside down, hang from branches with its hind feet and climb down trees head first.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Pam tilts her chair way back on its hind legs, just to get a little distance from the table.
    — Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Rabbits, with their large hind paws, can stand atop the snow to reach higher portions of tree trunks.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Zeus reaches seven feet and four inches tall when standing on his hind legs.
    — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The bear stands on its hind legs with what some might call suspiciously good posture.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Their front feet rested on their knuckles, while the hind legs bore down on the outer edge of the broad feet.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Sea otters have strong hind limbs and webbed feet, which frees their paws for finding and grabbing food on dives.
    — National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In the image, the cub is standing on its hind legs to look above the blossoms for its mother.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Its hind limbs are shorter, like in an early whale, and its tail looks like a giant paddle.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2022
  • The red hind grouper (Epinephelus guttatus) is big on grunting.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Skin around the hind knee, and make a slice up the rear leg, along the rump roast, diverting around the tailbone.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • As adults, grizzly bears can weigh up to 500 pounds and stand up to 8 feet tall when on their hind legs.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Powered by formidable hind legs, these elusive cats can leap six times their body length.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The heeler then tries to rope both hind legs, with a penalty being assessed if only one foot is caught.
    — Josh Criswell, Chron, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The horse was then suspended over the barrier, with its front legs on one side and its hind legs still inside its stall.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023

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