artificial leg

collocation in English

meaningsofartificialandleg

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artificial
adjective
uk
/ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/us
/ˌɑːr.t̬əˈfɪʃ.əl/
made by people, often as a copy of ...
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leg
noun[C]
uk
/leɡ/us
/leɡ/
one of the parts of the body of a human or animal that is used for standing ...
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(Definition ofartificialandlegfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He endured that and had anartificialleg.
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He lost his left leg and, for nearly 36 years, he wore anartificialleg.
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He has to be fitted with anartificiallegworking from his seat.
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She has to wear anartificialleg, and has badly deformed arms.
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Hisartificialleghas been broken three times since he has been there.
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A young footballer with anartificiallegwas sent off the field by the referee.
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She had secured anartificiallegwhich looked exactly like the real thing, but not alas!
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A temporaryartificiallegwas fitted, and the man duly returned home.
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She is a widow with anartificialleg, and she suffers from bronchitis.
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He also has anartificialleg.
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His most recent invention was the energizedartificialleg.
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However, most new patients needing anartificiallegreceive a temporary prosthesis on their second visit to a centre.
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We have reached a stage of technical skill to enable people to sprint with anartificialleg.
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He saw a woman warden, not very young, walk down the room by means of herartificialleg.
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We have heard complaints, especially from young women who quite naturally want anartificiallegthat looks as near as possible to normal.
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It is rather like giving a man anartificiallegwhile he is at work and then taking it away when he retires.
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He could not wear hisartificialleg, because the stump was suppurating, and he had to have a further operation to get rid of that.
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He made anartificiallegfrom barrel staves with a hinge at the knee.
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Gone are the days when, at the colliery gates, we collected pennies from the men in order to buy anartificiallegfor an injured man.
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He subsequently designed anartificiallegfor himself and in 1861 founded a company to manufacture prosthetic legs.
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One would no more think of taxing anartificiallegthan flying, so why therefore should one tax the artificial method necessary to enable a person to become mobile?
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They attempted and reached the summit alongside five blind climbers, a man with anartificialleg, and a person with epilepsy.
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