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    Use "limber" in a sentence

    limber example sentences

    limber


    limbered


    limbering


    limbers


    1. The following simple exercise will help to limber up the spine and prepare it for more difficult postures


    2. Simply for the very good reason that it is difficult for the beginner to master and I wanted you to limber up with some easier exercises before attempting to balance on your head


    3. “So I take it you didn’t see the chap out by the old artillery limber that’s a shame because you are dead then?” I looked through the eye holes again to where he had said and quartered the ground but I saw nothing


    4. “I have spotted him he’s just beside the broken wheel of the limber I had trouble at first but he moved his rifle slightly and that caught my eye


    5. “Go and tell the ‘Stokes Mortar’ crew to put a couple of rounds onto that old French limber out to our front


    6. ” Fred rushed off to tell the mortar crew and I watched through the eye holes of the plate as the ‘Pumpkins’ (trench mortars) dropped onto the limber throwing earth and mud up into the air and no doubt parts of the Hun sniper as well


    7. Cara felt loose and limber, her body humming with good health


    8. He would get that switch at once-and it must not be too limber, after all


    9. In other words, you have to limber or stretch them longer


    10. She had the body of a dancer, lithe and limber with just the right amount of curves

    11. He did some stretching motions to limber his muscles


    12. interred deep in the land of the limber lost…


    13. I'm still warm from the match earlier, limber and ready


    14. The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes,


    15. excrescence, which, limber and relaxed after the late enjoyment, now


    16. to emerge a round, soft, limber, white something that played every way,


    17. He felt lithe and limber, full of youth and grace


    18. folding lips, the softness of which, yielding entry to any thing of a hard body, close round it, and oppose the sight; and feeling further, meets with, and wonder at, a soft fleshy excrescence, which, limber and relaxed after the late enjoyment, now grew, under the touch and examination of his fiery fingers, more and more stiff and considerable, till the titillating ardours of that so sensible part made me sigh, as if he had hurt me; on which he withdrew his curious probing fingers, asking me pardon, as it were, in a kiss that rather increased the flame there


    19. Then the overflowing water would make a separation between his breast and glossy white belly; at the bottom of which I could not escape observing so remarkable a distinction, as a black mossy tuft, out of which appeared to emerge a round, softish, limber, white something, that played every way, with ever the least motion or whirling eddy


    20. “That’s to equalize the weight between the axles and the limber while it’s being moved

    21. AS I LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE that day I noticed that my legs felt more limber, my body lighter


    22. They felt their limbs, still as limber as on graduation day, and wondered about their desolation


    23. He ambled out to the rubber, worked his fingers around in his fists to limber them up


    24. One may picture the orderly expectation, the officers alert and watchful, the gunners ready, the ammunition piled to hand, the limber gunners with their horses and waggons, the groups of civilian spectators standing as near as they were permitted, the evening stillness, the ambulances and hospital tents with the burned and wounded from Weybridge; then the dull resonance of the shots the Martians fired, and the clumsy projectile whirling over the trees and houses and smashing amid the neighbouring fields


    25. It was of a conical shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the right-whale


    26. Sure enough, the old man was lifted into the limber and the old lady's four-wheeler tied on the back


    27. A team of mules in November 1916 was taking a double limber up to the line in pitch darkness on the Béthune-La Bassée road


    28. At last he got down from his limber and, with a rather vicious tug at the near-side rein said, "That's your left," and, tugging the off rein, "that's your right—now p'raps you'll know!"—E


    1. You will find this posture strenuous at first but as you become limbered up it will become easier


    2. I could just feel all of the perverts looking at her as she limbered up


    3. At the next stop, we limbered up our numb legs


    4. And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan; yet, even in the case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a ship's deck, such is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying shape of him, that his precise expression the devil himself could not catch


    1. The antidote was based on limbering up the spine and keeping it supple, bending it this way and that to relieve tired muscles, and putting the feet up above the head to combat the pull and downward drag of gravity


    2. It is called the SIDESLIP and it should not present too much difficulty if you spend the first couple of days limbering up your torso with the following simple movements


    3. At the extreme points of the twisting movement you can exert a slight pressure to enhance the value of this limbering exercise


    4. ‘We’ll kill it here,’ he said optimistically, limbering up for the forthcoming battle, which he knew would be the toughest contest he had ever had to undertake


    5. I pulled the husband figure out, his limbs bouncing around excitedly, a dancer limbering up


    1. We found ourselves unloading allsorts of kit as well as the animal’s horses, mules, then there were limbers and the field kitchens along with all the rest of the supplies and kit we would need


    2. The guns are more important than they are, and we’ll settle for the ammunition on the limbers


    3. He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached and hurriedly


    4. Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes and artillerymen’s bonfires


    5. ‘Yes, yes,’ muttered Bagration as if considering something, and he rode past the limbers to


    6. limbers lay several dead men


    7. He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached and hurriedly removed


    8. “Yes, yes,” muttered Bagratión as if considering something, and he rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon


    9. Among the limbers lay several dead men


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    Synonyms for "limber"

    limber limber up supple flexible pliant pliable yielding soft softened

    "limber" definitions

    a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson


    attach the limber


    cause to become limber


    (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable


    (used of artifacts) easily bent


    (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely