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Example sentences for "limped"

Lexicographically close words:
limo; limonite; limousine; limousines; limp; limpet; limpets; limpid; limpidity; limpieza
  1. She always limped a little from the blow that Manuello gave to her; the deep, sad scar he left upon her gentle heart could not be seen, and it, somehow, grew over as her flesh and family increased.

  2. He stepped out on to the balcony, and looked on with folded arms while the man left the castle and limped away toward the gate of the court-yard.

  3. As Billie limped up the gravel path alone, there was a curious weight upon her spirit.

  4. When Billie limped from the courts after a day of smashing victories, having reached the finals with a defeat of only one game, her first words were of praise for her adversaries.

  5. Roy's whole face beamed, he seized his stick and limped after Dudley without a thought of his leg, but when he reached the wall he came to a standstill.

  6. He heard the rector's voice in the distance, but was too excited to wait to see him, and after impatiently tugging on his objectionable coat, he limped off as quickly as he could, joining Dudley at the garden gate.

  7. He limped to the door with a gait that Kedzie would have recognized.

  8. He cursed and limped to the window and glowered down into the street.

  9. She walked past him, out of the studio, and Philip, with a shrug of the shoulders, limped along to Gravier's for luncheon.

  10. There was a sudden hush of the conversation, and Philip limped in.

  11. He swept out of the drawing-room with giant strides, and Philip hurriedly limped behind him.

  12. Philip found that his first lecture was in anatomy, at eleven, and about half past ten he limped across the road, and a little nervously made his way to the Medical School.

  13. Philip slipped off his chair and limped over to her.

  14. He limped downstairs just as Mary Ann was going into the dining-room for prayers, and then he sat down to breakfast.

  15. He nodded and limped away slowly, for he hoped with all his heart that she would call him back.

  16. Philip repeated every word of the conversation to himself as he limped home.

  17. Lawson, troubled by a behaviour which seemed inexplicable, took his hand, and Philip quickly limped away.

  18. As he limped along the high street of Blackstable he looked with a tinge of superciliousness at the people he passed.

  19. Mr. Carey walked to church in the evening, and Philip limped along by his side.

  20. Philip closed the door behind him and limped back to his own study.

  21. At the same time a tall figure in tattered garments of European cut limped out of the fort, and moved downwards.

  22. Slowly Samba's parents limped out of the hut after him, and with his assistance mounted the ladder and descended on the other side of the stockade.

  23. They watched him as he limped slowly along the trail.

  24. He was bent forward, and limped painfully.

  25. Ten minutes later Cass limped by the door, stopping a moment in the pantry to get a bite to eat.

  26. If he had not limped I should have noticed nothing.

  27. For when they went to Munson’s room, whither he had limped on his arrival at the ranch with the startling news, he was gone.

  28. Mr. Munson, as he limped around the room where the talk had been going on.

  29. I couldn’t do that very well now,” and he limped more than ever.

  30. One other reference to the bridge occurs in the Seven Poor Travellers, where Richard Doubledick, in the year 1799, "limped over the bridge here with half a shoe to his dusty foot on his way to Chatham.

  31. Presently, however, he got up, swore a good deal, and limped swearing into the house.

  32. I limped with weariness towards the voices, and sat in a shadow listening; and looked beyond to sprays of motionless shining foliage leaning out from inscrutable darkness.

  33. Indeed, I was curious to see Susanna again as 'gracious Frau,' and limped quickly across to the little room.

  34. And so she turned from the window and its dull outlook, and limped quickly through the room, here and there arranging or straightening something.

  35. I limped over to Anna Maria; she was standing before her brother's open desk, the papers in her hand.

  36. I was in sheer despair, and limped from Anna Maria's door to my room, and back again.

  37. Fraeulein Rosamond von Hegewitz had limped all her life, and yet a more contented nature than hers did not exist.

  38. She had just limped to a card-table, over which was hung an oval pastel portrait of a man with curled and powdered hair and a blue silk coat.

  39. I limped across to the girl's room, again with the thought, 'What will come of it?

  40. I rose, and limped along beside her down the hall as far as the large, dark room.

  41. I limped across the court as quickly as I could; he was already coming toward me in the hall, his whole handsome face glowing with pleasure; without further ado, he took me in his arms.

  42. She still limped a little, leaning on an ebony stick with a gold knob.

  43. He arose; and, taking his stick, limped away to see after them.

  44. He took no notice--he often heard it--but turned and limped into the church again.

  45. Patience limped a little in her walk still; she would limp always.

  46. Mrs. Butterfield's hard feelings were all gone; her heart warmed to Nathaniel; warmed even to the mangy dog that limped out from the barn and curled up on Lizzie's skirt.

  47. Pat Barnes tried to cough down his emotion and made a strange squeak; but nobody smiled; the crowded hall was curiously still as Fritz limped up to Norah.

  48. Berglund was rather a short man; his hair was gray; he limped from the old wound received at Shiloh.

  49. But the twilight had come and the wind had died away before teamster Slivers limped from the desert.

  50. Thus day after day the weary but plucky little boy walked on, and early on the seventh morning after he had left his native place, Oliver limped slowly into the little town of Barnet, and sat down on a doorstep to rest.

  51. Then she gathered up her tracts and her mandolin, and limped down the hall.

  52. I came back on purpose to see you," said Twenty-two, when at last the lame girl had limped away.

  53. Suddenly Twenty-two limped across the room and slammed the door shut, a proceeding immediately followed by an irritated ringing of bells at the night nurse's desk.

  54. The lame young woman seated herself in the throne-chair and sang an Easter anthem, and afterward limped around and placed a leaflet and a spray of lilies-of-the-valley on each bedside stand.

  55. After performing this evolution, he rose and limped as fast as he could up and down the room at least a dozen times, and then stopping suddenly before Rose, kissed her without the slightest preface.

  56. Again Mr. Brownlow nodded to Mr. Grimwig, and again that gentleman limped away with extraordinary readiness.

  57. One of his feet was bandaged and he limped badly.

  58. Alone and unattended he limped away among the graves to the wall on the other side of the cemetery and placed his back against it, negligently in the attitude of a devil-may-care fellow without a worry in life.

  59. Nakihud siya pagkabálì sa íyang páa, He limped after he hurt his leg.

  60. Mikimpang ang íyang linaktan kay way tikud ang píkas sapátus, She limped because she lost the heel on one of her shoes.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.