How To Use Limping In A Sentence

James was bleeding from a large gash on his forehead, while Ryan was limping heavily and his shirt was torn.
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.
She had twisted her ankle and was limping.
They noticed that the Elephant was limping, and then they saw the long blackwood splinter sticking out of his swollen foot.
He was limping badly and has a problem with his ankle and his knee. The Sun

He appeared to be limping, leaning dependently on a short gnarled cane.
The caravan of cars was accompanied by men and women on bicycles and limping along by foot.
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
With the economy just barely limping into the New Year, finding a steady paycheck is harder than ever.
The half-time hooter came at the right time for the Rhinos, but the sight of their Great Britain centre Keith Senior limping into the dug-out instead of back on to the pitch added to a sense of apprehension.
He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity. The Song of The Dodo
You could see him limping quite badly towards the end of the game. Times, Sunday Times
He was limping a little, didn't seem to like standing on it, and just kept plonking himself down on the ground.
With a desperation that was madness, unmindful of the pain, he hurried up the slope to the crest of the hill over which his comrade had disappeared — more grotesque and comical by far than that limping, jerking comrade. LOVE OF LIFE
It took Ryre five days before he could manage to walk without limping.
Hipponax (mid-6th century) is said to have invented the choliamb, or ‘limping iamb’.
We are the injured wildebeest limping appetisingly on the veldt Archive 2008-01-20
You could see him limping quite badly towards the end of the game. Times, Sunday Times
In 2002 when a political earthquake saw the Socialist's presidential hope Lionel Jospin knocked out by the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, Hollande, then party general secretary, was seen as an uncontroversial, soothing, and safe pair of hands – just what was needed to nurse the wounded and limping party back to health. François Hollande nomination marks the triumph of Monsieur Ordinary
He's been limping badly ever since the skiing accident.
The team is limping along in fifth place.
I watched as the driver of the car came to his feet, he was limping on his left leg.
The good news for hospitals limping along in the recession is the new federal stimulus package could feature money for shovel-ready projects.
Without further parley I left him, and set off along the byroad, scarce giving a glance to the poor dog limping painfully towards the inn. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
East gave a little ghost of a smile, and his hand tightened, and then went loose in mine - and I found I was blubbering and gasping, and thinking about Rugby, and hot murphies at Sally's shop, and a small fag limping along pathetically after the players at Big Side - because he couldn't play himself, you see, being lame. Fiancée
Jess abandoned all idea of water and ran out along the path and through the gateway with Salt limping behind.
He had a bandage on his right hand and was limping. Times, Sunday Times
We both started cracking up when we looked to the back and saw that Guy was still limping on one foot to the boys locker room.
We can have a dozen pots in the shade house limping along, but walk outside and look under some racks and WOW! the corydalis is so beautiful it’s ridiculous. The beautiful — and frustrating — corydalis « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
At a limping run, he vanished into the narrow opening between the northwest corner of the manteion and the southwest corner of the cenoby. Exodus From The Long Sun
Now wait... but you continue, limping as you walk, while darkness filters into the saucer of land like a neap tide. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
So, too, did she picture this client with the broken half-shaft; poor man, perhaps limping, perhaps patched up in some way. Blue Shoes And Happiness
The limping shrimp impulsively implemented the compulsory duty.
Then, limping over to Barn's prone body, he straddled the man, and sat down on his blubbery belly. GALILEE
After limping along for almost two years, the economy is starting to show signs of recovery.
And he stepped out into the empty walk and crossed the turf of the garth, limping heavily, and Cadfael was left gazing after him. A River So Long
While Tanek was limping so heavily it was as if Valeska was watching a badger, ward the wolves away by its heavy-footed trot.
She went in some time after, taking no notice of him, and he came limping up, and laid his great jaws in her lap; from that moment they were “chief,” as she said, James finding him mansuete and civil when he returned. Spare Hours
Libby Anne, limping painfully, put her "shinny" stick into Bud's hand. The Second Chance
My mood on Friday wasn't helped by the fact that I was limping around with a painfully throbbing bruised ankle.
I'm still limping a little, but know that will disappear soon. The Sun
East gave a little ghost of a smile, and his hand tightened, and then went loose in mine — and I found I was blubbering and gasping, and thinking about Rugby, and hot murphies at Sally's shop, and a small fag limping along pathetically after the players at Big Side — because he couldn't play himself, you see, being lame. Flashman In The Great Game
I should have thought, said Pleydell, that very respectable quadruped, which is just now limping out of the room upon three of his four legs, was rather of the Cynic school. Chapter LII
‘Very young’ Roger, limping slightly, and with his customary air of not being quite what he ought to be, uncovered his sandyish head and smiled above his chin. Over the River
He lightly brushed Arin away and walked over to Karras, limping heavily on his right leg.
The tale of how He coming unexpectedly home found Him with Her was then put through its paces with such skilful jockeying that not one in ten would know it for the same dobbin so lately brought limping to the light. The Henchman
I try to shorten my stride to coincide with her short limping legs. Christianity Today
She bent down to clutch her leg, limping more heavily upon it as she moved towards the bed, then sat heavily upon it.
The slingstone struck a Transformed in the knee, hard enough to leave it limping. Conan the Valiant
Rackingly above the crash and lilt of music, the quick, wild thud of dancing feet, the sharp, staccato notes of laughter -- she heard the dull, heavy, unrhythmical tread of the oncoming years -- gray years, limping eternally from to-morrow on, through unloved lands, on unloved errands. Little Eve Edgarton
A series of hefty kicks on the two men left them both limping even after lengthy treatment.
I'm still limping a little, but know that will disappear soon. The Sun
A British battleship, which had been damaged severely in the battle of Crete, came limping into Pearl Harbor.
But as a grownup, Mattlin says, his disability can make the holiday feel unsettling BEN MATTLIN: I never thought about a connection between disabilities and Halloween til I learned of the once-common fear of deformities - the limping, hunchbacked, hook-handed or one-eyed monsters of ancient fairy tales and old horror movies. On Halloween, Celebrating Differences Of All Types
In a speech, she protested the modern Jewish attitude of condescension based on the ancientness of Judaism, adding that “the glories of which we boast become mere crutches to a limping self-esteem.” Elsie K. Sulzberger.
The rats then swarm onto and devour any lamed, limping brontosaurus that they come across.
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. Tom Brown's Schooldays
He had to stop after two rounds of the competition with a calf injury, limping away for treatment. Times, Sunday Times
On this spot I saw abundance of plover; and as I walked my horse along at a foot pace, I observed many of the newly hatched young, around which the old birds anxiously hovered, continually resorting to a well-known artifice; and in the hope of alluring an enemy to a false pursuit, limping tenderly away with a flagging wing, as if they were lame.
Many people of all ages from one group were limping because they lacked one or more limbs and had canes or prosthetics.
Passing the town-wharf laggingly like the maimed thing she was, limping nearer and nearer the spot whence she had set out three-quarters of an hour before, Mr. Carstairs's _Cypriani_ slowed down at an abandoned private landing -- the same one by which Peter's trunk had been conveyed ashore that morning -- and ran out her stairs. Captivating Mary Carstairs
In fact, I think I might even have bruised my leg muscle, as I'm limping about all over the place and grimacing whenever I sit down.
There was a burst of laughter and applause as Ralph the bowyer, the comedian of the company, came limping in, got up in the character of an old quack who had physicked half the spectators. Masters of the Guild
He was sniffling because of a cold and limping because of a back problem.
BILL BREER, CSIS, JAPAN CHAIR: We have lived with a kind of a limping Japan economy for, what, eight or nine years now, so we can probably tolerate that into the future, if there's light at the end of the tunnel. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2001
Indeed he invented an earthbound metre for the purpose, the choliambic or limping iambic, also known as scazon.
Depending on whether or not the big dork is still limping, and how he looks against the competition. The wind it blew before but not like this. it was much easier before.
The fables are written in choliambic, _i. e._ limping or imperfect iambic verse, having a spondee as the last foot, a metre originally appropriated to satire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
He went over to the sofa, limping slightly, and sat down gingerly.
Sadly it has been damaged and is presently limping into Cascais, Portugal.
Fred himself is adorable; he's got a great crinkly smile and a baldish head and is incredibly photogenic in his overalls, limping through verdant pastures.
In the Romance languages, you ‘exit the room creeping’, ‘cross the river swimming’, and ‘descend the hill limping’.
Later on, these same corporate infested predators got HHO generation lost in the world of cold fusion confusion with just enough funding to keep it limping along and waylayed in that fantastical way out there in a way out of the way never-never land world of a seeming, instead of a being; lost into a fantasia of never happenin '! A Bottom Up Rescue Plan for the Auto, Bank and Mortgage Companies
Today, she took him over an oxer and he started limping. Canterwood Crest Triple Fault
His repertoire of moves includes "bopping" the fragile bones on top of the foot ( "now you've got an attacker who's limping away"), or whipping it against the shins ( "hurts like the devil"). Everybody Is 'Cane Fu' Fighting
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
The gunners managed to shoot down two of the attackers before the aircraft was badly hit, limping back to base on two of its four engines.
Limping with small pairs can trigger cheap multi-way flops, or, if someone raises, a reraise can win you a nice pot immediately. The danger of small pairs
Three horses, one white, one gray and a bay, are limping down St. Claude Street.
I try to shorten my stride to coincide with her short limping legs. Christianity Today
A British battleship, which had been damaged severely in the battle of Crete, came limping into Pearl Harbor.
I would rather we attempt big, serious change and fail, than fiddlearound with footling, meaningless promises, limping through office andclinging to power for the sake of it. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
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Horrified motorists saw the animal limping beside the motor in Cardiff. The Sun
He staggered to his feet, limping towards the entrance of the cave, his body searing with pain each time he moved.
He went to Florida January 2, still limping badly, to focus on the NFL by working out and living at a training academy owned by the IMG agency.
But they really do work and 5 minutes of discomfort is better than limping around for 3 days or being so sore that you wake yourself up when you roll over in your sleep Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 12 March
He was a houghal (no idea what that means) to look at - most unlike a runner. he had a limping way of walking, was dull and monotonous in his look, round shoulhered (you'll know this means shouldered) long backet and short legged, with an earnest, stubborn expression. IcAyrshire
Now he's got a large bruise on his foot and is limping pretty badly on it.
In recent years the newspaper had been limping along on limited resources.
Casey ran around the small oval, puffing and panting, limping on her left foot, the blister throbbing excruciatingly.
Also, with tea made from spruce needles, with concoctions brewed from the inner willow bark, and with sour and bitter roots and bulbs from the ground, they dosed his scurvy out of him, so that he ceased limping and began to lay on flesh over his bony framework. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
That limping at the end of races and the fact that he wears black strapping - similar to that once used by athletes to ease the cursed runner's knee - has left fans somewhat mystified for he has refused to dwell on the matter.
She continued to improve and her family heaved a sigh of relief and started limping back towards normalcy.
He had a bandage on his right hand and was limping. Times, Sunday Times
Jeka waited until the ashman led the limping mare away, then rinsed the flask and filled it. Wellspring of Chaos
Because it handles like a Formula 1 car limping into the pits with four burst tyres.
The organizations that control these networks are limping anachronisms that are constrained by the expense and physical necessity of using wires to build their networks.
The misery memoir is limping out of the limelight like a cruelly neglected racehorse past its time. Times, Sunday Times
He was limping badly and has a problem with his ankle and his knee. The Sun
One morning I accompany the limping government water truck on its deliveries.
A frequent dilemma is a limping child with no constitutional symptoms and no localized abnormalities by history or physical examination.
Jacob steps forth to meet him halfway, alone, before an army, halting and limping and bowing down to the ground.
In later years, his northern students shared with their southern compatriots admiration for his soldierly valor, of which they were continually reminded, as one of them wrote, ‘by the choliambic [limping] rhythm in his majestic gait.’
He went away, limping dot and go one.
A stone in his shoe accounts for why he was limping.
Meghan climbed to her feet, still limping on her injured leg, and looked around at the crowd of girls.
The fast bowler was limping heavily yesterday morning. Times, Sunday Times
She continued to improve and her family heaved a sigh of relief and started limping back towards normalcy.

How To Use Limping In A Sentence

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