How To Use Limply In A Sentence
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As I stood in the queue, I observed the dishes of sandwich fillings resting limply behind the glass counter.
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As the dancers broke through like butterflies from a chrysalis, the fabric hung from them limply, like some remnant of an earlier life stage.
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The tension drained from her, and she sagged limply against the front doorpost.
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Puzzled, Preter hesitantly did as he was told and slumped limply to the ground.
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Her hair hung limply over her forehead.
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Soon the leaves die, turning a dark, blighted gray and drooping limply from the branches like hung corpses.
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The little girl slumped limply out of his arms and fell fast asleep, her arms wrapped around her baby brother.
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Spent birds perch limply in trees or at the vendor's feet.
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They roll him over on his side and his arm flaps limply over the side of the gurney.
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William rolled limply onto his back, his outflung hand catching and parting the sumptuous velvet curtains that they had been standing in front of earlier, when she had first told him that the engagement was off.
Shameless
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She turned around, face streaked with grime and hair dangling limply from beneath the kerchief, brandishing the duster.
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His left leg was extended straight, spread across the length of the table, while his right leg hung limply off the side, his foot slowly brushing across the floor.
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His arms hung down limply, one over the edge of the couch.
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The play park lies unused, the swings swing limply in the breeze, the raison d' être of the roundabout remains unfulfilled.
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One arm hung limply at her side while the other rested on the hilt of her sword.
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Her still damp auburn hair hung limply in ringlets, brushing her bare shoulders.
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I let out a sigh and followed her up, my arms hanging limply at my sides.
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Her hair was pinned in yesterday's curlers and her bathrobe hung limply around her, like a dirty gown.
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On examination, the arm is held limply with the elbow extended and wrist pronated, and the child resists attempted supination of the arm.
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During these first few minutes of the dance, he had been letting his arms hang limply at his sides.
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The steak arrived in a bowl of Scottish stovies, which were navvie-pleasingly hearty but limply flavoured.
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Having stretched out limply on the couch beckoning for hot water bottles and wishing for my mama, however, made me think about the different types of sickies there are.
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Vivienne struggled for an answer, feeling sweat bead along her nape and along her forehead, where her dark hair was already hanging limply from her shower.
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Black was literally all you could look at -- the models wore minimal makeup, with hair left mostly unfussed: slightly crimped, frizzed out, and falling limply on their shoulders.
Gazelle Emami: Christian Siriano Fall 2011 (PHOTOS): Some Like It Dark
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The body crumpled limply but inertia carried it into the side of a car with enough force to seriously dent the entire side and shove it three feet sideways into its parked neighbour.
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The twelve wire leads of the electrocardiogram hung limply from his chest.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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He rested his head on his arms, which hung limply across his knees.
THE LAST RAVEN
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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
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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.
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the body was hanging limply from the tree
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She had tousled blonde hair that hung limply around her shoulders.
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Her hands fell limply into her lap and the drawing pad slipped to the floor, sheets of paper spilling out around her feet.
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Normally there is a dynamic interplay between subject and countersubject in a fugue, but here the energy is concentrated in the subject, with the countersubject limply shadowing it in thirds and sixths.
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However, even allowing for the unsuitability of his footwear, the attempt on goal that follows is truly awful and Abramovich collapses in fits of laughter as the ball limply trundles wide of the post.
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The sharp ears were not pricked so sharply as he had seen them on other wolves; the eyes were bleared and bloodshot, the head seemed to droop limply and forlornly.
LOVE OF LIFE
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I let my hands drop limply into my lap and felt the fridge-cool cork against the back of my ear and then a sudden jab of pain.
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Another agent was sprawled limply by the auditorium door, and Bill, his lantern jaw outthrust, was grimly holding off the three attackers with his revolver.
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The sails hung limply in the flat calm .
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He saw the deer hurled into the air, its willowy body limply somersaulting like a stuffed toy.
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I shook my head, turning away from the body that she held limply.
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We frequently conceded goals which were, frankly, hopeful punts from the opposing penalty area, which would roll limply into the goal as the defence fled in terror at the round white thing in their midst.
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Dicena had cried herself out and draped herself on her mother's shoulders, arms limply dangling down Debra's back.
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The sails hung limply in the flat calm .
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A cigarette drooped limply from the corner of his mouth.
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I felt him press his lips to the crown of my head, and in an instant, I fell into a dreamless trance, resting limply in his arms.
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They punch so limply as an attacking force, though, that falling behind to superior opposition leaves them chasing an irretrievable cause.
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I shrink with bone-chilling horror at the deathly shroud of moribund prose that dangles limply from the author's limblike arms, as he threatens ominously to envelopingly enwrap me in it ... or it in me.
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Her long brown hair seemed lifeless, hanging limply down her back.
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As he paced, his poorly fitted suit stretched and pulled unflatteringly around his paunchy stomach, and with each step his stringy hair fell limply from its comb-over in greasy strands.
