How to Use hindquarter in a Sentence

hindquarter

noun
  • The fox turned to show her hindquarters, black with blood.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Part of the hindquarters had been eaten, and one flank was torn out.
    — William J. McRae, Outdoor Life, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Also on the hindquarter are the shank and some stew meat that trims off the other cuts.
    — Jamie Carlson, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Its small legs and hindquarters that work to steer the huge muscular bulk of the front end.
    — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2016
  • Flank steak is from the lower back or hindquarter of the animal.
    — Susan Selasky, charlotteobserver, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Mule deer are fairly uniform in color, from hindquarters to face.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Wolves had eaten 25 or 30 pounds of meat from one of his hindquarters.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The donkey’s torso was full of puncture wounds and half of his hindquarters were eaten.
    — The Associated Press, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • The donkey's torso was full of puncture wounds and half of his hindquarters were eaten.
    — Associated Press, courant.com, 2 June 2017
  • The underside of the lion’s body, tail, and hindquarters are in shadow.
    — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • The dog whines — with its tail still wagging — as the rescuer fastens a sling harness around its hindquarters.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • Some dressed their dogs as well, fastening vibrant tutus around their hindquarters.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 June 2017
  • Primal short loin is cut from the hindquarter between the pinbone of the primal sirloin and the small end of the rib.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Venison hindquarters produce the most meat, which can be broken down into large, usable cuts.
    — Jamie Carlson, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Leo’s hindquarters are marked by a right triangle, whose eastern apex is marked by the star Denebola.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Yet this frog’s glamorous hindquarters are meant to repel attention, not attract it.
    — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
  • Their intestines often spill out through their hindquarters, and Torres shoots the cows to put them out of their misery.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • On the rest of the hindquarter, natural seams of silverskin run between large muscles.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 29 Aug. 2019
  • From there, a triangle stretches eastward to form the lion's hindquarters.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Toasty hindquarters are a nice bone to throw at rear-seat riders, given the tightness of their accommodations.
    — Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 29 June 2017
  • Trailing behind is a triangle of stars forming the lion’s hindquarters.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Try the versatile hindquarter and cut it into cubes, or choose a shoulder or shank that requires braising to become tender.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023
  • As the fugitive car careered along the narrow road, the passenger started heaving out hindquarters of venison.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This time, the Giants took advantage of seeing the hindquarters of Arizona’s bullpen.
    — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2017
  • New, potent cancer therapies can act like daggers pressed into the hindquarters of the immune system, prodding it to lunge at any cancerous cells in the body.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2017
  • But academy voters were apparently too hung up on the image of Carrey talking out of his hindquarters and left him empty-handed.
    — The New York Times Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Others include a Canada goose with severe leg injuries from fishing line, a woodchuck with a large lesion on its hindquarters and an opossum with a frostbitten tail.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This ornament, situating them as something between a throw pillow and a hand muff, shrouds the thick-boned fore- and hindquarters that give them a characteristic rolling gait.
    — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Males often chased, bit, struck, and scratched fertile females (easily distinguished by their bright red, swollen hindquarters), but not pregnant or lactating females.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 6 July 2017
  • Consequently, deer can cut, or change direction, quickly and fluidly, throwing a juke at a predator that might have otherwise sunk its teeth into a deer’s hindquarters.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2024

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