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Sentence Examples As I stood in the queue, I observed the dishes of sandwich fillings resting limply behind the glass counter. They punch so limply as an attacking force, though, that falling behind to superior opposition leaves them chasing an irretrievable cause. I felt him press his lips to the crown of my head, and in an instant, I fell into a dreamless trance, resting limply in his arms. Dicena had cried herself out and draped herself on her mother's shoulders, arms limply dangling down Debra's back. Feeling less self-conscious he stood up and ambled jadedly towards Finn, placing his hands limply around her shoulders. On examination, the arm is held limply with the elbow extended and wrist pronated, and the child resists attempted supination of the arm. During these first few minutes of the dance, he had been letting his arms hang limply at his sides. They roll him over on his side and his arm flaps limply over the side of the gurney. Her hair was pinned in yesterday's curlers and her bathrobe hung limply around her, like a dirty gown. I let my hands drop limply into my lap and felt the fridge-cool cork against the back of my ear and then a sudden jab of pain. She turned around, face streaked with grime and hair dangling limply from beneath the kerchief, brandishing the duster. One arm hung limply at her side while the other rested on the hilt of her sword. She also heard his deeply agonized, breathless cry as he collapsed limply to the floor. Above the store's signboard, drying shirts hang limply from the window grill. One looked about four and was lying limply in his mothers' arms, all feverish and cranky. The way she hung limply in her fathers arms made him believe she was already dead. There are few visual images more saddening than a flag, limply draped at half-mast. Her still damp auburn hair hung limply in ringlets, brushing her bare shoulders. Her hands fell limply into her lap and the drawing pad slipped to the floor, sheets of paper spilling out around her feet. The little girl slumped limply out of his arms and fell fast asleep, her arms wrapped around her baby brother. Show More Sentences Puzzled, Preter hesitantly did as he was told and slumped limply to the ground. He saw the deer hurled into the air, its willowy body limply somersaulting like a stuffed toy. The steak arrived in a bowl of Scottish stovies, which were navvie-pleasingly hearty but limply flavoured. As the dancers broke through like butterflies from a chrysalis, the fabric hung from them limply, like some remnant of an earlier life stage. Things are going smoothly, life is evolving limply, we're swimming in calm waters, then suddenly along comes the splinter, or cramp. I shook my head, turning away from the body that she held limply. She had tousled blonde hair that hung limply around her shoulders. Dark, gnarled hands hung limply from the sleeves of the robe, but no face appeared within the raised hood. Having stretched out limply on the couch beckoning for hot water bottles and wishing for my mama, however, made me think about the different types of sickies there are. His left leg was extended straight, spread across the length of the table, while his right leg hung limply off the side, his foot slowly brushing across the floor. Many of those left behind lay sprawled motionless on blankets or slumped limply in their folding chairs. I let out a sigh and followed her up, my arms hanging limply at my sides. They tried lantana, a perennial whose flowers smell, rather limply, of banana and passion fruit. Another agent was sprawled limply by the auditorium door, and Bill, his lantern jaw outthrust, was grimly holding off the three attackers with his revolver. Vivienne struggled for an answer, feeling sweat bead along her nape and along her forehead, where her dark hair was already hanging limply from her shower. Fluff stuck to her hands, the ducks' long necks hung limply over the edge of the bowl. His tail drooped limply and she noticed that though he usually looked quite joyful and energetic, it now seemed that almost all his energy had run out. His face was partially obscured by a bandana and a baseball cap, from beneath which his long ponytail hung limply. He bunches himself up tightly, one leg entwined over the other, with the crossed leg dangling, limply, languorously. She casts an arm out limply, and the blue bandanna flutters up like a distant flag of truce. Show More Sentences Her long brown hair seemed lifeless, hanging limply down her back. Skeletal figures, too weak to move, wait limply for help. Will he actually manage rather than limply monitor his responsibility? He swayed, poking the air limply with an uncertain forefinger. Meanwhile, two weeks ago in the capital, the country's leading anti-corruption journalist was assassinated by gunmen on motorbikes, a crime the government limply condemned. The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin. They're grubbier and stubblier too, in T-shirts that hang limply, thanks to a five-day head start of water, sweat, and grit. The pay phone on the corner has been vandalized, and its metal cord hangs limply down, receiverless. His limbs hung limply, and that white sneakerless sock was like a finger pointing straight at the heavens. Limb hangs limply at side, rotated medially. I don't think it is limply libertarian or unambitiously pragmatic to question whether a Europe free from prostitution is feasible, or even desirable. A rain-drenched saltire hung limply on a flagpost in the backcourt. When I finally made it to the carriage where the rest of the band were sitting, there were just the remains of the cut chain hanging limply at my side. His struggle to stop the accounting firms from offering consulting services to audit clients, for example, ended rather limply in a requirement for disclosure rather than a ban. Examples from Classical Literature They held hands for a time, laxly, till one loosed, and then both swung limply back to their places. Then hopelessly, she let the arm holding the tire iron fall limply to her side. Then the fly comes limply home and nothing remains of the sproat hook but the shank. She drew his arm round her waist, and was humiliated to feel that it lay there limply. Towards evening every bird became silent, the flowers closed their calices, the leaves of the trees hung limply down. He raised his clenched hands, only to drop them limply, impotently. But he was left limply weak, and, after tossing off the blankets and recognizing Jerry, he fell into a refreshing natural sleep. He lay on his back limply, as though all the strength had gone out of his limbs, and presently I saw that he had fallen asleep. His eyes were closed, his head dropped forward upon his breast, his hands hung limply before him. From the gaff of one, two gay flags hung limply, one a checkerboard of blue and white squares, the other a white pennant centred with a red disc. She leaned over the side as limply as she could, imitating a corpse. When finally the female ceased to struggle and rolled over on her back, her forepaws limply folded, I was sure that she was dead. He threw out his hands once more, palms up, and dropped them limply. The Moro collapsed to the road, limply, like a wet stocking off a line. I took it limply, thus clenching the bargain of infamy between us. Then Kaa would give way limply, and Mowgli, with both quick-moving feet, would try to cramp the purchase of that huge tail as it flung backward feeling for a rock or a stump. The lama had squatted limply, still holding by the door-post. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of limply? Words that rhyme with limply What is the adverb for limply? What is the adjective for limply? What is the noun for limply? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words limpkin limping limpidness limpidly limpidity limpid limpness Limpopo limps limp-wristed lims limulus 6-letter Words Starting With l li lim limp limpl