[
US
/ˈɫɪmp/
]
[ UK /lˈɪmp/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪmp/ ]
VERB
-
proceed slowly or with difficulty
the boat limped into the harbor -
walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
The old woman hobbles down to the store every day
NOUN
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
ADJECTIVE
-
without energy or will
a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know
the afternoon heat left her feeling wilted
gave a limp handshake -
lacking or having lost rigidity
he felt his body go limp
limp lettuce
How To Use limp In A Sentence
- This reverse ekphrasis, with its glimpsed, illegible text, hints at the hidden world of the silent reader. The Times Literary Supplement
- He caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror.
- There is a gap of several tens of millions of years between the Middle Permian when the last Metoptomatids lived, and the Middle Triassic when the true limpets appear.
- The two nuclear-powered vessels limped home as both navies launched top-level inquiries. The Sun
- We take a sightseeing boat trip around the bay and get a glimpse of the smart new opera house which looks exactly like two durians - a very distinctive local fruit that tastes great but has a repellant smell.
- And of course the guests and limpets also had to be depilated, washed, and have their hair dressed in an order dictated by protocol. Wildfire
- The car is still in its early days yet it has already given glimpses of its potential.
- They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
- As he wheeled once more she caught a glimpse of his face, almost indistinguishable beneath the mask of dirt and blood.
- Some of the witnesses (those weariest among the number) even claimed to have caught a glimpse of that place. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW