go on all fours
Example Sentences
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He explained how a person could be constantly tripping over debris and obstructions and at times having to go "on all fours" to try to get through the tunnel.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
He would go on all fours snuffling along the gutters for food and when he came to a morsel of offal he would fall upon it and devour it ravenously.
From The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Train, Arthur Cheney
The brute thus circumstanced continues to go on all fours, as if he were on land, keeping his head well out of the water.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Steele, Joel Dorman
Eudena, watching him with a fearful admiration from the cover of the bracken, saw him presently go on all fours, and so proceed again.
From Tales of Space and Time by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
No one could disturb him there, for to reach it he had to go on all fours.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert
