LIMP in a Sentence

Learn LIMP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

82 example sentences for LIMP, such as:

1. He offered a limp hand to shake.
2. He limped off the football field.
3. The flowers looked limp in the heat.
4. The old man limped away on the stick.
5. Slowly they began to limp back towards the farm.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIMP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
limp
 v.  walk lamely, especially with irregularity, as if favoring one leg; move or proceed haltingly or unsteadily
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  Under her shapeless dress her body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare that disease of the spine sometimes gives.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  He said nothing but lifted her limp hand to his lips and kissed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She felt as limp as a rag doll, warm, weak and helpless, and his supporting arms were so pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  Let other soldiers limp by in rags with their feet tied up in sacks and strips of carpet, but not Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  He took her limp hand and pressed the damp clay into it and closed her fingers about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  He took Melanie's limp body from Archie's arms with ease.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  She felt again the rush of helplessness, the sinking yielding, the surging tide of warmth that left her limp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Hastily she grasped the limp hand lying on the coverlet and was frightened anew by its chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
9  Guy pulled his soft mustache, looked self-conscious, and turned Mr. Grimm into a limp dummy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  She had been walking alone with her arms hanging limp, letting her white skirts trail along the dewy path.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
11  And then Jurgis went limp, and caught himself on the ladder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  The orator sat in a chair, with his shoulders sunk together and his eyes half closed; his face was ghastly pale, almost greenish in hue, and one arm lay limp at his side.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
13  But the other gave him a glance as from the depths of a tomb, and raised his limp hand in a prophetic manner and turned away.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  That creature had gone a little way when she began to limp and show every sign of being foot-sore.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
15  Slowly they began to limp back towards the farm.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence:
1  When you really love something when you will find language how fragile and limp.
2  His hand went limp and the knife clattered to the ground.
3  The flowers looked limp in the heat.
4  I wasn't badly hurt, but I injured my thigh and had to limp.
5  If you live with a lame person, you will learn to limp.
6  He offered a limp hand to shake.
7  Whistling to the dog, he began to limp on down the trail.
8  He limped off the football field.
9  Three minutes into the match, Jackson limped off the pitch with a serious ankle injury.
10  The old man limped away on the stick.