Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fours
IPA transcription: [f'ɔɹz]
Usage examples
  • Quick as a cat in his movements Tad turned over before he landed, going down on all fours.
  • He got up to catch her then and finding himself unsteady on his legs, he went down on to all fours.
  • Exhausted and inwardly disgusted with his mishaps, he crawled more cautiously on all fours to his wigwam door.
  • "Follow me!" he whispered and crept on all fours nearer the window. They could see a man now, an elderly man with white hair and a white beard.
  • Sometimes, in taking a walk through the wood, you would find yourself suddenly sprawling on all fours, having trampled on one of Gibbey's salmon.
  • Crawling on all fours, I made steadily but slowly towards them, till at last, raising my head to an aperture among the leaves, I could see clear down into a little green dell beside the marsh, and closely set about with trees, where Long John Silver and another of the crew stood face to face in conversation.