Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use hobbling in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hobbling? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He is also recovering from an operation, hobbling around on crutches with enormous bandages on both feet.
She just laughed and handed me some ointment that I rubbed on and, as I write this, I'm still hobbling around the office.
I looked as Madam was heading outside to tell Stephen not to worry about hobbling the horses.
But university administrators complain that the funding crunch is hobbling their efforts to recruit and retain the world's best and brightest.
They began hobbling towards the car, Leanne almost crumbling under the weight and the disgusting, foul smell of alcohol.
My Uncle was laid up with an arthritic problem, but from his couch or hobbling about he would carry on renovation to his house.
Now he has been left hobbling on crutches after muggers fractured the top of his femur while trying to rip off his running shoes.
I'm a great leg-puller, but it's hard to be fully involved in that sort of thing when you're hobbling round on crutches!
I could cope with hobbling to the lectures on crutches after the operation but I had no idea where I was going to find the money.
Meanwhile, the constant transferring of large numbers of bulky audio and video files can swamp college networks, hobbling other users.
We run a significant risk of hobbling the effectiveness of an open market and entrepreneurial environment that has been unparalleled in history.
The poor little mite was obviously distressed and was hobbling around on its good leg, often resting on the ground.
Since the Russian government appears inclined to consider some revision, European wishes could well be satisfied without hobbling US plans.
My colleague from Trinity-Spadina has called it the hobbling sales tax or the hated sales tax.
The HST could actually stand for hated sales tax, horrific sales tax, hobbling sales tax or horrible sales tax.
For weeks I would be hobbling around, barely able to straighten my leg at all.
The referee called Conte for the infraction, Dante was hobbling in pain, and the Argentines did not want to lose the point.
It turned out he had hard-metal pulmonary disease, which, like black lung disease, can be hobbling, even fatal.
But none of the devastation changed the fact that the siege of Quebec was hobbling along lamentably.
This one was hobbling clumsily among the rocks, one wing sticking crookedly up in the air, and it was uttering sad cries of pain.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
I followed the Mexican, who, in a hobbling gait, proceeded towards the stream.
Even the Duke of perse, hobbling on crutches, had a kindly greeting for him.
I hobbling over the ground like some decrepid wretch, and Toby leaping forward like a greyhound.
He made his way at a hobbling gait toward the back row of chairs.
Mercy took an instantaneous dislike to this hobbling, ugly old man, staring at her rudely through his great tortoiseshell spectacles.
His exordiums in particular were often hobbling and always unassuming.
Just then he saw, hobbling along, a wrinkled, ragged old woman.
The crone was hobbling along with difficulty, leaning heavily upon a gnarled stick and bearing the spindle on her other arm.
What would have happened next I cannot say, if Aunt March had not come hobbling in at this interesting minute.
Then suddenly Aniele got up and came hobbling toward him, fumbling in her skirt pocket.
One morning as he was hobbling through the streets he met his old enemy prowling to see if she could find anyone to decoy.
Yonder came hobbling a man with a lame ankle, or another with his shins torn by the briars or another with his jacket all muddy from the marsh.
The warriors finally dismounted and hobbling their animals advanced toward us on foot with drawn long-swords.
A hobbling figure appeared for a moment on the side of the ravine.
I would not for twenty old women like the one hobbling before us that Faith should come to any harm.
How she adored him, in spite of his great humps and his now hobbling legs!
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
8-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024