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How to use limp in a sentence

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When she'd lifted it up, just past her stomach, she went limp and fell back on to the bed.
For the first three quarters, the market remained limp because of the recession and war.
Punjabi's, where you'd get hearty khana at rock-bottom prices, was run by bewhiskered Sharma who had a limp and a military air.
These are ideas which are beautiful in theory but limp and bedraggled in practice.
As soon as he was safe from the sea's cold clutches, Arrigo covered his sister's limp form with his jacket, then collapsed beside her.
It was much larger than it had first appeared, and had dark red and blue feathers covering its limp body.
We cannot limp along with no policy, no one obeying the Deputy Prime Minister and a lack-lustre, do-nothing government with a lame-duck leader.
Milton stood at the window, hands clasped behind his back, his shoulder-length hair limp and lank.
But as we limp into the 21st century, that gender gap is rending the fabric of the entire African-American community.
He recalls how his body ached, his limbs went limp and he was too weak to walk.
If your massage is too limp, tell the masseur that you would like more pressure.
He has a slight limp due to a healed injury to a front foreleg, but that sure doesn't hinder him any!
Angela quickly recovered from her stumble, and began to limp while walking ahead of him, hoping he wouldn't notice.
Little do we know that at the top of the mountain he has bonked and is lying in the first-aid station, his body limp and shivering.
Soldiers silhouetted by a pink sunset watched their battle-worn vehicles limp back into camp.
All the punishment dished out meant only eight cars could limp out for the demolition derby in which Bill Bylett ground the opposition to a halt.
Eonsas was a big man, in at least his fiftieth turn, still strong but developing a pronounced limp on his left side.
The woman smiled and wandered in with the smallest hint of a limp, pushing a food cart.
Her body was limp and her head lolled back and forth in a disturbing manner.
The limp can be related to an injury or sometimes may occur for no apparent reason.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We wear a moderate modicum of crinoline, and are never limp in the morning.
It was limp and heavy, it was swathed in sheets, like a lay figure or a mummy.
Despite his limp, I was conscious of his tallness and lissomness as he hobbled by my side.
Her limp body was slipping to the floor in a nerveless heap, her muscles slack and unresponding.
She bathed her face, dashed some toilet water over herself, and fell into a chair, limp and unnerved.
The Virginian noticed the slight limp of the mare, and how her pastern was cut as if with a stone or the sharp heel of a boot.
Across the doubletree behind them hung the limp form of their driver, a great, gaping wound in his head.
They taught the perky boy that he was not everything, and the limp boy that he might be something.
Now even the gorp had ceased its wild struggles and hung limp in its bonds.
In addition, he was bowlegged as a greyhound, and just now he moved with a limp as though very footsore.
What if knobs and the hooked nose man with the limp were in a partnership of crime?
The canvas is rather a logy, limp sort of craft, to my thinking, and liable to drown her crew if swamped.
Cal Emmett strode up and grabbed the limp, gray hat from his head and began using it for a football.
The limp of Hephaestus could not have called laughter so unquenchable from their lips.
And you'd like me to follow those skinny old frumps and leggy, limp chits, that slobber and cry over that man!
His eyes were closed, his face a dead, chalky white, and his body hung limp.
He began to wilt, insofar as so rigidly constructed a creature could go limp.
He became acutely aware of his disfigured face, and felt his swelling bruises with a limp, investigatory hand.
Erb has reported a large series of intermittent limp from his private practice.
His jaws were apart, and through them the tongue protruded, draggled and limp.
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