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
I catch a glimpse of a celeb in heavy makeup and not enough clothes.
How did it come to be that he, lustrous Kennington, had to instruct these limp-wristed ladies in something he was born knowing? Shortcut Man
We looked limp and pallid and shambolic by comparison.
Others in his career had already glimpsed his fiery temper. Times, Sunday Times
From early spring to late fall, he will leave his apartment, limp across the street and coax whoever is willing to play patty-cake with him until the bus arrives.
From the river cruise the docklands look like docklands everywhere; tourists finally at rest, not quite bored, get brief glimpses into other lives, other spaces.
As the light streams through the windows of the minivan and reflects off Joni's earrings, Joel remembers the way the late-afternoon sun used to glint on the river as he made his way back from class to his off-campus apartment…the way his heart used to pound whenever he caught a glimpse of his downstairs neighbor, a balalaika player named Clarisse. The Search
A stiff knee following surgery forced her to walk with a limp.
In his mind, he blasted six large holes in the blimp's gas cells.
Many of the events are informal and unscripted, and can afford glimpses of public figures talking unguardedly about their ideas, their life, and their convictions. The Story Behind the Story
Every splash of bright colour has gone back into a drawer not to be glimpsed again until next spring.
When there is news of a show, fans will find out where the band is staying and try to book rooms in the hotel in the hope they can at least get a glimpse of the celebrity, talk to them or get their autograph.
The sails hung limply in the flat calm .
It's not sort of limp, it has a voluptuousness to it. Opulently Hidden, In Plain Sight
These comments provide a glimpse into the thinking of a layer of extremely wealthy Hollywood liberals or erstwhile liberals, whose commitment to democratic rights is increasingly tenuous.
Kahit na blimps ay mabagal, carry maliit na timbang, at nangangailangan ng malaking hangars sa bahay ang mga ito, ang isang kumpanya ng Aleman ay magkaroon ng isang ahas-tanga tulad ng disenyo na overcomes ang ilan sa mga shortcomings upang magbigay ng isang bapor sa hangin pangangasiwa na maaaring manatili aloft para sa araw. Ideonexus.com »2,009» Disyembre
The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
The public rarely gets a glimpse into this world. Times, Sunday Times
Even from where we looked you could glimpse the glint of the huge carp pond where Abbe Gerard had drowned.
James was bleeding from a large gash on his forehead, while Ryan was limping heavily and his shirt was torn.
He pointed to a dun lionhead that lumbered peaceful as a blimp.
This was partly because of mismanagement, but limp demand was also to blame. Times, Sunday Times
Is it possible that a glimpse of the awesome majesty of the night sky, once revealed, would help to overcome anti-social behaviour?
Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
a momentary glimpse
The girls caught only a fleeting glimpse of the driver.
Limp bizkit once said "it's all about the he said she said bullll sh1t." and now I beleive him. Boing Boing: June 19, 2005 - June 25, 2005 Archives
With water all around me I had little choice but to sit under a leaky tarpaulin beside chain-smokers and crying children, only now and then getting a glimpse up into the vast forests I was entering.
As Myeloski switched on the light, he had caught a glimpse of Louise Taylor before she disappeared under the cover.
Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic? An Autobiography
Seen from the above, the lake resembles a pair of limpid eyes.
All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus.
Secondly, it is a good example of what I call the pious palimpsest. Old Calabria
The unruly bunch pushed into the White House, clods standing on the silk-upholstered furniture in muddy boots to get a glimpse of the new president (who was trying not to be crushed by his well-wishers). Inauguration Party Like It's 1829
It is nice to catch glimpses of bumboats passing by while standing on Cavenagh Bridge.
He knows where the work's heart lies and how to conjure its spell from the music 's limpid simplicity and antiquarian turns of phrase. Times, Sunday Times
Ornate doorways offer glimpses of inner courtyards and enticing interiors; many are university buildings, but just as many are candlelit bistros and bars.
Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache. The Younger Set
In fact there are fascinating glimpses of the Babylonians coming to terms with the fact that division by 7 would lead to an infinite sexagesimal fraction.
Y., resident still limps from a bullet wound suffered days after his rescue effort.
When you really love something when you will find language how fragile and limp. Text and feeling always have the estrangement.
For a while, an hour and a half, though she did not know it, until the men came in from the fields trailing dust and slapping their stomachs, Rupban clutched Cheepy-cheepy's limp and bony neck and said only "Coming, coming" to all inquiries about the bird. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Complex analysis of the international tale of the hero or heroine who glimpses a forbidden sight and suffers for it.
When we look at this Hadith, we have a glimpse of life in the early Islamic period.
The uncovering of the buried town gives us a unique glimpse of the past.
I moved over and peered out of one, catching a glimpse of backyard through screens rusted into the old wooden frames.
I love catching a glimpse of the unexpected flower growing through cracks in a sidewalk, or the furry and feathered critters dodging us humans in their quest for food and shelter.
When the great US sportswriter George Plimpton told Muhammad Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee that the Italian heavyweight Primo Carnera used to wrap a stout rubber band round his member at night to prevent arousal, Dundee laughed scornfully. Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide
It's full of phonemes, guttural exclamations and limpid hisses.
Let us peel away some of the layers of gilt and glimpse at some of the failures.
I could say that the effect of the dream was to leave me feeling limp and ragged all day since.
I caught just a quick glimpse of a whale yesterday, on its annual wintertime northward migration, and hope to have a bit more to say about this tomorrow.
He limped heavily as his co-pilot helped him to walk; it appeared as thought he man's leg was broken.
You can glimpse the sea from the rear cobbled courtyard garden. Times, Sunday Times
Iron Man/Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau gave us a little treat today … our first real glimpse of Mickey Rourke as the villanous Whiplash in Iron Man 2. Iron Man 2 – Whiplash Revealed! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
He rested his head on his arms, which hung limply across his knees. THE LAST RAVEN
Through the trees you may catch glimpses of billowing sails, wind surfers, cross-lakes ferries and motor boats.
Yet despite all this there was an air of conservation, the odd glimpse of the Old World in a narrow dingy lane where a dray horse shifted his weight from one hock to the other, blinking lazy lashes above the nosebag containing his lunch.
But, by 2008, it is hoped that visitors will be able to stroll along a new hour-long trail and glimpse some of the splendours and ideals of past eras.
My creaseless Gap khakis and limp white shirt developed an inferiority complex. A Kettle of Vultures
Herondas too, the author of mimes written in choliambs (‘limping iambics’), a metre typical of the archaic iambist Hipponax, dedicates an apologetic-programmatic poem, Mimiambus 8, to the defence of his poetics.
Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
We now get a glimpse into the reactionary politics, racism, and social parasitism of his mayoral administration.
Hurricane Katrina ‘is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.’
They caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling.
The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal's club had bruised him.
Every splash of bright colour has gone back into a drawer not to be glimpsed again until next spring.
This is the scene's only glimpse of him; Michel's galvanic change of mind and manner (after narrating ‘I lost courage’) is not explained until this moment.
The hotel is built on the ruins of a Byzantine chapel and you can get a tantalising glimpse of it through the glass floor of the lobby. The Sun
This is very similar to the detailed, ornate, velvety and yet touchingly naive backdrops of those medieval scenes, that can be glimpsed through narrow windows in front of which wimpled ladies exchange devotional books with chivalrous gentlemen. Archive 2008-06-01
She took it and, when I glimpsed her next, she was headed for the bathroom with a tiny handtowel and a prison-issue toothbrush. Noble Norfleet
She had to limp through the final stages of the epic encounter, warding off cramp.
Sometimes the mother eagle takes a break and the father sits on the eggs for a few hours but fidgets, offering a glimpse of the new eaglet. ' OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eaglets Hatching Now on Live Web Cam
I caught my first glimpses of wild rock wallaroos peering at us shyly from the safety of a rocky ledge.
A glimpse of his bare torso set my pulse racing.
He felt a tiny tremor of excitement as he glimpsed the city lights.
She caught a glimpse of his paleness at the window of the bathroom on the first floor.
This week a small army of lame excuses have limped into the news, one after the other. Times, Sunday Times
Our home base was a huge glowing translucent submarine, shaped like a blimp.
There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings. Psychedelic Denver
Poluski's quip; but that fleeting glimpse had thrilled her with subtle recognition of something grasped yet elusive, of a knowledge that trembled on the lip of discovery, like a half remembered word murmuring in the brain but unable to make itself heard. A Son of the Immortals
He didn't look at her but she caught a glimpse of his misty grey eyes, they seemed far away.
Part of the continuing allure of police action films is the chance to get under the skin of a criminal, to glimpse into an alien world.
The architect from the West Coast was loaded with potential till I glimpsed at a picture of his balding pate.
That smile afforded her a brief glimpse of the other side of Adam Burns.
The best a guy with prurient interests gets to see is one glimpse of Reneé Humphrey, and a few fairly hot scenes of women kissing.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's inspired idea was to make airships rigid, so superseding the early blimps, which were fatally vulnerable to leaks from the inflammable hydrogen used to inflate them.
So I caught one of the hands that were lying limply on the coverlet, bent forward and said softly, reprovingly: "You silly young muggins, why did you go and do a daft thing like that? Fear is the Key
Imagine the limpet is the antelope of the undersea Serengeti, grazing majestically on algae," he intones, bouncing the shell along. Thestar.com - Home Page
She had twisted her ankle and was limping.
I hurried down the aisle and reached the door in time to glimpse Nepos and his retinue of attendants heading across the Forum in the direction of the rostra. CONSPIRATA
There is enough here to deliver on the hype and this album is a tantalising glimpse of the future. The Sun
Colin Bell, back on the ground where he first made his mark in soccer, limped through the game in an unaccustomed centre half role, but still had the skill to control a ball and make good use of the possession.
As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
Maddened by the limp rag doll banging against his legs, he veered to the left.
Clifton's palimpsestic rewriting of Whitman in which relationships, not the individual, have primacy, is finally able to bring this family identity into American literature.
Frampton was fascinated by these inside glimpses of a world he had never known. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
They noticed that the Elephant was limping, and then they saw the long blackwood splinter sticking out of his swollen foot.
Y., resident still limps from a bullet wound suffered days after his rescue effort.
The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
The entry marks a moment when Darwin glimpsed the enormous philosophical consequences of what he was working out. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
He was limping badly and has a problem with his ankle and his knee. The Sun
When he began to play a tune, we had our first glimpse of the snake.
He appeared to be limping, leaning dependently on a short gnarled cane.
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.
Taking cues more from tweedy George Plimpton ( "Paper Lion") than schlumpy John Madden ( "Ultimate Tailgating"), herewith some tailgating essentials that which should raise the stakes on your own football fete. The Gentleman
The caravan of cars was accompanied by men and women on bicycles and limping along by foot.
Then they began to talk, and, by-and-bye, the king asked the fakeer if he could show him a glimpse of Paradise, for he found it very difficult to believe in what he could not see. The Orange Fairy Book
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality. Alfred Hitchcock
Elsewhere he emerges limp and dripping from a lake, the opposite of a triumphant James Bond coming to shore. Meet the best new artists in Britain
Sources in the Special Anti-Crime Unit said it was intelligence gathered from the blimp airship which informed yesterday's historic seizure.
Adam slammed on the brakes when he got a glimpse of the animals milling around in a large lot.
She was light and limp and damp in his arms. Times, Sunday Times
In years gone by, entire summers could pass with barely a glimpse of flannelled foolery on the back pages of the tabloids.
The nutrient deficiency of Anthurium scherzerianum was studied. The typical symptom of limp and leaves lacking of certain kind of big element were observed and analyzed.
If you are observant you can get little glimpses into their lives by watching and listening circumspectly.
Monney had never seen a sea turtle before Dec. 17, when he caught a glimpse of the leatherback — estimated weight 1, 700 pounds — and an olive ridley the same night.
He got up from his sitting position and, with a slight limp in his gait, he ran towards the battlefield.
Had he left it open in order to tantalize her with a glimpse of freedom? LORD OF THE SILENT
Women from Jane Austen and Mary Shelley to Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson produced literary works that are in some sense palimpsestic, works whose surface designs conceal or obscure deeper, less accessible (and less socially acceptable) levels of meaning. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
Had he left it open in order to tantalize her with a glimpse of freedom? LORD OF THE SILENT
As the cripple sat looking over the solemn, moaning ocean, awed by its brooding gloom, did he catch in the silvery starlight a second glimpse of the rose-colored veils, and snowy vittae, and purple - edged robes of the Parcae, spinning and singing as they followed the ship across the sobbing sea? St. Elmo
I ain't limpin ', sir," the man answered respectfully, and, at a nod of dismissal from the mate, marched off jauntily along the deck with CHAPTER V
They watched as the goat struggled to its feet and limped away, bleating in protest at this unexpected treatment.
The essays provide a glimpse into the many unexplored themes in Birmingham history.
Last year, the madding crowd salivated over the first glimpse of Lord of the Rings.
Chairs creaked, and necks craned as every eye tried to catch a glimpse of the stranger.
The song began at another table, and with his limping Greek Michael missed many words: but it was a kind of soaring lament. COUP D'ETAT
Ilse strained her memory, searching for a glimpse of his face somewhere.
walked with a marked limp
Although it is not at all uncommon for such lovers, who have fully learned this art, to go to sleep thus, in each other's arms, their sex organs united; and, in this position, have the organs detumesce, the penis grow limp and slip out of the vagina of its own accord, while the vagina also grows small and the clitoris subsides. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise
The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
But true or not, it nowadays seems blimpish and offensive to many people. The Times Literary Supplement
I limped round for another lap, but the radiator was leaking and I pitted to save the engine.
Â Only her white underclothing is visible in the dark room as she undresses and they get it on, and somehow Walker’s new powers give Heather a glimpse of his past couplings as she climaxes. Review: Powers #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
I only caught a glimpse of the thief, so I can't really describe him.
This, if I have understood it aright, is not the purpose of the Nobel Lecture either, for it should serve far more to give the lay public a glimpse into the world of thought and work of the research scientist, just as the distinguished founder of this prize was a layman himself. Robert Bárány - Nobel Lecture
Although Kelly presents herself as uncomplicated and cheerful, every so often the public glimpse her true mettle.
Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave.
Motorists at Dr Cullen roundabout were doing an about-turn all this week, as Carlovians caught their first glimpse of the town's latest sculpture.
Overall, the tonal balance, flattening of forms and coolness of colouring projects a feeling of utter limpidity.
Today, scientists can offer a real-life glimpse of this developmental bifurcation by pointing to vertebrates, such as zebrafish, that retain pharyngeal teeth only; others, such as mouse and human, that have oral teeth only; and a subset, including cichlids, that thrives with both. Emaxhealth
I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and professed his honorable intentions.
Today their work has given an intriguing glimpse into the life of a lost community from the Middle Ages.
Crowds shouted and pushed to get a glimpse of their hero.
I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his highpriest's hat of white. A Hero of Our Time
He caught a glimpse of the man's face in a shop window.
But we are now seeing a glimpse of what disintegration would look like. Times, Sunday Times
It is their first glimpse at common ground.
The stories are heartbreaking, but the privilege of the briefest of glimpses of the lost lives is also revealing and inspiring.
Even from where we looked you could glimpse the glint of the huge carp pond where Abbe Gerard had drowned.
At its peak, in 1976, Ms. had a circulation of 500,000; it now limps along at an unaudited figure of around 110,000.
He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor. A Lover Of The Long Shot
Hollywood deals in illusions, Arnold has always sought the truth, and that is why her famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe feel like glimpses of a living woman rather than coldly iconic memorials.
The production needs much more firepower; but at such moments, this is still a glimpse of humanity in hell. Times, Sunday Times
Following poems develop a manner of writing which relies heavily on language as a palimpsest of attitudes and learned response so as to undermine these.
The 23-year-old marketing coordinator for BHS Corrugated certainly hit the mark when we "glimpsed" her at the Blue Hill Tavern in Canton. Undefined
An anonymous private collector who bought the palimpsest for $2 million at auction in 1998 has loaned the manuscript to the Walters Art Museum and is funding the studies.
a few whitish bristles; pectus whitish; hind borders of the abdominal segments ferruginous; legs testaceous; femora striped with black; tarsi black, ferruginous at the base; wings limpid, blackish at the tips; costa deep black, incrassated in the middle; halteres testaceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
He thought the speech a model of its kind, limpid and unaffected.
From this point on, they'd be practically flying blind, with only the occasional glimpse of their surroundings.
I wasn't badly hurt, but I injured my thigh and had to limp.
He had a momentary glimpse of himself from above, as if through a camera lens.
Limp bizkit have officially set "Gold Cobra" as the title of thier new studio album due out sometime in the fall of Metal Underground.com
Alex limped to the porthole, apparently surveying the scene of unloading beneath him. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
He generally walked alone with rapid short steps and a slight limp, as if he had one leg slightly shorter than the other. Seminary Boy
Silence falls as he limps up the the bar - no sound anywhere in the saloon except for the jingle of his gunbelt. Making Light: Open thread 137
When you glimpse your face in a shop window it appears as if you're struggling with some incredibly vexing problem. Times, Sunday Times
The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes. The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
That momentary impishness, that glimpse of the old Avy, disappears. Famous
In that flashing glimpse, even as he reined and spurred to make his own horse leap sidewise out from under, Harley Kennan observed the scratched skin and torn clothing, the wild-burning eyes, and the haggardness under the scraggly growth of beard, of the man-hunted man. CHAPTER XXXVI
Visitors will be attuned to the ‘music’ of the swamp with the calls of woodpeckers, barred owls and limpkins along the ‘On the Boardwalk’ exhibit.
Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes.
He felt a tiny tremor of excitement as he glimpsed the city lights.
He caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and squirmed at the sight of a balding old man with a pert nose and an infinity of lines on his face.
Its sides were wild, abrupt, and precipitous, and partially covered with copse-wood, as was the little brawling stream which ran through it, and of which the eye of the spectator could only catch occasional glimpses from among the hazel, dogberry, and white thorn, with which it was here and there covered. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
What it does have in abundance is limp, broad comedy starring Shia LaBeouf and some actually rather tepid vamping by former-It Girl Megan Fox. Night Flights: March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
This is a potent glimpse of the lure and the danger of magical escapes from adolescent reality. Times, Sunday Times
A few minutes later he caught his first glimpse of Space Station One, only a few miles away.
With the economy just barely limping into the New Year, finding a steady paycheck is harder than ever.
He cites as a perfect example the scene in Basic Instinct where Sharon Stone is brought to the cop station for questioning and winds up flashing everyone a glimpse of her Lesser Antilles.
His foot and leg injury cause him to limp as he sprints toward Spike and spears him to the ground.
A limp handshake and a thank-you for rounding out the end of an otherwise mundane Sunday.
A diablesse can be recognised from the fact that her left foot is cloven, and that under her skirts can be glimpsed heavy steel fetters.
Some species of limpets have been shown to spend their entire lives within a few cm of their home scars, while others can move upwards of 1 m during a single tidal cycle.
As university campuses become increasingly multi-ethnic, they offer a glimpse of the conflicts society will face tomorrow.
He cites as a perfect example the scene in Basic Instinct where Sharon Stone is brought to the cop station for questioning and winds up flashing everyone a glimpse of her Lesser Antilles.
At eight, two years after the birth of his half-sister, his mother had ballooned into a blimp.
Some of these are light in weight and can be used alone on hair that gets frizzy but becomes overly limp with more product.

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