lumbering

Example Sentences

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Maybe the vessels' stiffening is a protective mechanism, Schrepfer suggests, and limbering them up might cause other problems.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2023

Some, Bucher later claimed, seemed to be stretching, limbering up.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022

Discarded blue surgical masks fluttered around the street, and walking the empty hillside felt good, my body limbering and loosening.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Not many aces on the mound on the first day — Jack Flaherty, Nathan Eovaldi and Iván Nova were among the familiar names limbering up, and they each got tagged.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2021

We would have three days of limbering up and a chance to resupply at Monson before plunging irreversibly into the deepest woods.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson