How to Use hindquarter in a Sentence

hindquarter

noun

• Beaver meat consists of the backstraps and the hindquarters.
  — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The underside of the lion’s body, tail, and hindquarters are in shadow.
  — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• 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
• A mature bull will have hindquarters weighing 150 pounds or more.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
• A three-year-old Glen of Imaal terrier named Emmett sat on his hindquarters and waggled his paws in the air for a treat.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
• This time, the Giants took advantage of seeing the hindquarters of Arizona’s bullpen.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Mule deer are fairly uniform in color, from hindquarters to face.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• On the rest of the hindquarter, natural seams of silverskin run between large muscles.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 29 Aug. 2019
• In the first case in Spartanburg, on Nov. 8, a 29-year-old horse suffered four deep lacerations to its hindquarters and belly.
  — Fox News, 20 Nov. 2019
• Caroline had seen fit to have her pony make the homeward trip with its hindquarters thrust into Delphine’s ravished clothes.
  — Zora Neale Hurston, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Venison hindquarters produce the most meat, which can be broken down into large, usable cuts.
  — Jamie Carlson, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Some dressed their dogs as well, fastening vibrant tutus around their hindquarters.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 June 2017
• Instead, cut the backstraps into 10- to 12-inch-long sections, leave the individual muscles and muscle groups of the hindquarter whole, and freeze it all like that.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 29 Aug. 2019
• Yet this frog’s glamorous hindquarters are meant to repel attention, not attract it.
  — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
• 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
• The elder couple counted themselves among the founders of the festive group, and for the first time, their grandchildren were able to not only parade side-by-side with them, but shake hindquarters in matching costumes long into the night.
  — al, 17 Feb. 2023
• This was an, ahem, epic fall. Besecker launched into something that looked almost elegant — a moonwalk, maybe? — before finishing splayed on his hindquarters for all the block to see.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018
• Officials say the dog has dislocated knees, arthritis and an infected, open wound on her hindquarters.
  — Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
• Unsurprisingly, the new X4 will once again be an X3 with resculpted hindquarters.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 29 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The additional weight gives them a couple extra inches of thick fat on their hindquarters, which helps keep them warm in temperatures as low as -45 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Nathan Kotschwar, a veterinarian, knelt on the dirt ground and quickly performed a vasectomy – slicing, stitching and stapling the deer’s hindquarters in less than 15 minutes.
  — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Lunch on the sunken Lusitania, a British ocean liner that was torpedoed by a German submarine in 1915, might include green turtle soup and hindquarters of lamb on fine china with shiny silver cutlery.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024