cross-legged in English

adjective
1
(of a seated person) with the legs crossed at the ankles and the knees bent outward.
John sat cross-legged on the floor

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1. Generally, longer periods of sitting in tight cross - legged or kneeling postures are inadvisable.

2. 21 She was cross legged, bare breasted, her hair around her head like a nimbus.

3. We all sat cross-legged in a circle atop a straw mat on the floor .

4. She flicked back the long, dark, silky strands of her hair and sat cross-legged on the bed.

5. 23 Mr White Face continued to sit cross-legged, gazing up at me, his tusked countenance quite inscrutable.

6. The Agura is the name for the class of ties that keep your partner in a cross-legged position

7. The secretary might work sitting cross-legged on the ground and holding the sheet on a board with one hand.

8. While watching the teacher teach, students should sit quietly and attentively in seiza (proper sitting) or Agura (cross legged sitting position)

9. The tailor sits cross-legged day in day out sits in there, takes the needle to put on puts on, is raising the iron shove around.

10. During our study, he would sit cross-legged on a rug, excitedly tapping the floor while explaining at the top of his voice what he had learned.

11. Agura (胡坐, lit., "foreign/barbarian sitting"; also called anza 安座) is the Japanese term for the position normally referred to as sitting cross-legged in English.

12. It Had No Opinion About Anything It Had No Habits, It Often Sat Cross-Legged , Took Off Running...Had a Cowlick In Its Hair...And Didn't Pull a Face When Photographed.

13. ‘He leaned close, Clasping the horse's mane as tightly as he could without harming the horse.’ ‘She pushed it open without hesitation and still Clasping my arm, dragged me inside.’ ‘Closing her eyes, she sat, cross legged, fingers Clasping an emerald green pendant.’

14. And trust me, it had all the stereotypes that you can imagine, the sitting cross- legged on the floor, the incense, the herbal tea, the vegetarians, the whole deal, but my mom was going and I was intrigued, so I went along with her.

15. A leg mit übereinander geschlagenen Beinen cross-legged von einem Bein aufs andere treten to shift from one leg or foot to the other sich kaum auf den Beinen halten können to be hardly able to stay or stand on one's feet er ist noch gut auf den Beinen he's still sprightly schwach auf den Beinen sein to …