limber

Example Sentences

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With the hip replacements, he’s limber enough to climb into the large machinery needed to harvest crops, spray pesticides, plant seeds and move hay bales that weigh roughly 1,000 pounds each.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Lifting weights, I’m just trying to keep this old husk limber and I wanna be able to have a healthy aging.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2025

Take our quiz and limber up for the football event of the summer.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025

But the aged rodents in the lab of molecular biologist Shin-Ichiro Imai at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sported tails that were limber and nearly straight.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

Rowan and Citra trained with blades and staffs, sparring against the scythe, who was surprisingly strong and limber for a man of his apparent age.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman