limping

Example Sentences

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Limping up and down the field, he still managed 361 yards and three passing touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Limping, not so well herself, she never went far, only going out for water.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022

Limping into the playoffs is a meager consolation prize compared to heady thoughts entering the season but that’s where things stand.

From Washington Times • Mar. 26, 2018

Virginia Hall, a wellborn, multilingual Marylander who became known to the Nazis as the Limping Lady because of her artificial leg, helped French Resistance fighters wage guerrilla warfare against the occupying Germans.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2015

Limping and still stiff, and as perilously thin as Jack, Moniek quickly related how he had spent all this time lying in a far-off barracks, recovering from his injuries.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren