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Example sentences for "limping"

Lexicographically close words:
limpet; limpets; limpid; limpidity; limpieza; limply; limpness; limps; limy; lin
  1. A white man, limping and apparently in great distress, besought them to run in and take him on board before the Indians reached him.

  2. Not content with being once refused, he was limping along shore, and beseeching them in more piteous tones than ever.

  3. This threw all the venerable gods and goddesses into a fit of laughter, like any microcosm of flies; and even set limping Vulcan a-hopping and jumping smoothly three or four times for the sake of his dear.

  4. But pretty Fancy and limping Logic are powerful usurpers in commonplace minds.

  5. Simpson, the bully of Clare's childhood, went limping about on a crutch, permanently lame, and full of hatred toward the innocent occasion of the injury he had brought upon himself.

  6. So they tried back slowly and sorrowfully, and found the lane, and went limping down it, plashing in the cold, puddly ruts, and beginning to feel how the run had taken it out of them.

  7. As the boys scattered away from the ground, and East, leaning on Tom's arm and limping along, was beginning to consider what luxury they should go and buy for tea to celebrate that glorious victory, the two Brookes came striding by.

  8. Perhaps her limping gait had never given her more acute pain than now, when Ingram was trying so carefully and labouriously to adapt his step to hers.

  9. Mr. Ingram had come early, but Mollie was already dressed, and limping up and down the room; for she was far too restless to sit still.

  10. It's on Limping Dog Creek," said Mackenzie, "just where that gorge you follow intersects the stream.

  11. Toma said they were nearing Limping Dog Creek.

  12. Appetites a little appeased, they were off again, hoping to make the cache of provisions on Limping Dog Creek by nightfall.

  13. They could see one of the men slicing steaks from the moose haunch before, at a guttural command, they were started off into the woods, northward along Limping Dog Creek.

  14. He had finally set off, limping a little, in a northward direction.

  15. The old man's arm was in the girl's, and he supported himself on the other side, limping a little, on his black stick.

  16. Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.

  17. Alleyne was plodding down the slope upon one side, when he saw an old dame coming towards him upon the other, limping with weariness and leaning heavily upon a stick.

  18. It is not true, brother Harry," said the admiral, limping to his chair.

  19. The poor old admiral had risen, and was limping about when Sydney went after him.

  20. Because he’s limping along like an old woman with a crutch!

  21. I noticed her limping along half an hour before we lost sight of her.

  22. Well, they probably went away after Phillips and Mendoza in that limping old machine,” Carl said.

  23. He spoke without enthusiasm; and the first man, limping into the milky stream that foamed over the rocks, vouchsafed no reply.

  24. The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill.

  25. Mr. Wall may say that two sound scouts would have a better chance to capture than a team with one limping scout.

  26. Tim, "you deserve all the credit for limping along on that bum foot.

  27. On the contrary, it lit up with sudden delight and said smile helped his limping consciousness forward to the idea of a dream.

  28. Governor asked, rising from his chair and limping with his cane across the room.

  29. She was aroused from her solitude and made radiant on the instant at sight of the Military Governor, limping his way across the hall in her direction.

  30. When Egbert saw his little girl limping horribly--not only limping but lurching horribly in crippled, childish way, his heart again hardened with chagrin, like steel that is tempered again.

  31. Some of the poor creatures went grazing about the fields, limping on three legs, one, perhaps, having been broken or carried away by a shot.

  32. With Farnworth limping close at his heels, Sefton ran to the rescue.

  33. Nagkiang siya kay natunuk, He is limping because he got a thorn in his foot.

  34. Nagtakiang siya kay nalisa ang tiil, He is limping because he sprained his foot.

  35. A man in the bushes two hundred yards back of them scuttled to his feet and ran limping off.

  36. The younger man ran limping to his cinnamon.

  37. Jim, who was limping heavily, stopped and examined it.

  38. See if you can get him into a truck or ambulance," the doctor suggested, limping off through the icy water.

  39. Denis went limping up to him with outstretched hand.

  40. Denis was limping along only a few minutes later when the sound of a gallop made him look round for the rider who had just left him; and the same horse it was, but a different horseman, for whom the stirrups were grotesquely short.

  41. One morning the dog came limping up the cut with a broken leg.

  42. He’s just the one to afford time to go limping about.

  43. He seemed to be limping from the effects of his sprained ankle.

  44. I guess they've caught him," the limping "burglar" said.

  45. We rattled down to the foreshore and turned along the coast road, bowling along it at a great pace, every now and then meeting wounded men limping wearily towards San Fernando.

  46. Little Navarro was limping about Santa Cruz as cheerful as ever, and every one wanted to be remembered to me.

  47. The poor beast was limping badly every step he took, and the man was beating him cruelly.

  48. Presently, old Bill Perkins, our First Lieutenant, came limping along, his jolly old red face beaming all over.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambling; bad; castrated; cautious; circumspect; crawling; creeping; crippled; deliberate; disabled; easy; emasculated; faltering; flagging; game; gentle; gradual; halt; halting; handicapped; idle; incapacitated; indolent; lame; languid; languorous; lazy; leisurely; limping; lumbering; moderate; poking; poky; relaxed; reluctant; shuffling; slack; slothful; slow; sluggish; staggering; strolling; tentative; toddling; tottering; trudging; circumspect; crawling; creeping; crippled; deliberate; disabled; easy; emasculated; faltering; flagging; game; gentle; gradual; halt; halting; handicapped; idle; incapacitated; indolent; lame; languid; languorous; lazy; leisurely; limping; lumbering; moderate; poking; poky; relaxed; reluctant; shuffling; slack; slothful; slow; sluggish; staggering; strolling; tentative; toddling; tottering; trudging