Stirrups Sentence Examples

Alex stood in the stirrups, aiming the rifle at the bear.

Behind him, standing in the stirrups, trotted a Cossack.

True stirrups were unknown.

Irish horsemen rode without saddle or stirrups.

His bloody corpse, dragged in the stirrups by the terrified animal, revealed his fate to his attendants.

She stood quietly beside the mounting block as I tightened the girth and ran down the stirrups.

The saddles will be Chilean - the same as American saddles - with long stirrups.

Mild steel stirrups f 10 are placed uniformly distributed at 200 mm offsets.

Beginners are advised to practise riding with and without stirrups; thus, let the pupil who has ridden half an hour in a saddle with stirrups have a cloth substituted for the saddle for about ten minutes, care being taken to observe the rules already laid down for the position of the legs; in this way the proper seat will be strengthened.

These leggings feature the traditional stirrups of yesteryear, along with a high percentage of spandex and a sharply tapered leg.

When the baby crowned, she was put in the "lithotomy position" -- flat on her back with her feet up in stirrups.

A woman is given pain medication and Misoprostol, then asked to lie on her back with her feet in stirrups.

Flats and pumps were the shoes to sport with the ever-popular stirrups.

Cowboy boots are tall, reaching up to the calf, and have a high heel to help a rider's foot remain in the stirrups.

Also, should the rider fall from the horse but the boots remain stuck in the stirrups, they were more likely to simply slide off the rider so that he would not be dragged by the horse.

High heel pumps date all the way back to the 1500s when horseback riders supposedly wore them to help keep their feet in stirrups.

These machines resemble a horse's saddle and some models even have stirrups for your feet.

Carmen stood in the stirrups and studied the two calves? both females.

Carmen stood in the stirrups and craned her neck to see what was troubling him.

Having gained the saddle, the rider should adjust the stirrups to the proper length, depending on the kind of riding, the length of his leg and the roughness of the horse's trot.

For practical purposes the chief difference between a park seat and a hunting seat consists in the shortening of the stirrups some two or three holes.

A puller will compel the rider to shorten his leathers one or perhaps two holes - a course that may also be rendered necessary in a hilly country, for, in going down hill, the stirrups, if kept at the ordinary length, will generally feel a great deal too long.

After having been some time in a training stable, a lad is put on a quiet horse at exercise; his stirrups are adjusted, and the reins knotted for him at a proper length.

Most of the piles driven in Great Britain have been made on the Hennebique system with four or six longitudinal steel rods tied together by stirrups or loops at frequent intervals.

The shape of the boot made it easier to mount a horse and keep the boots in the stirrups while riding.

As with road riding, so with hunting, the actual length of the stirrups will depend a good deal upon the shape and action of the horse, but the nature of the animal and the peculiarities of the country ridden over will also have something to do with their adjustment.