How to Use limbed in a Sentence

limbed

adjective

• And the music’s lyrics and loose-limbed grooves are a testament to that.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• Both are at least 6-4 and long-limbed, which can slow down exchange times.
  — Dallas News, 13 June 2022
• Muscle your way to the front and spend a few moments in the gleam of the long-limbed, graceful Buddha.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• It was bathed in the light of a TV, and the little girl, longer-limbed now, was curled in a chair staring at an iPad.
  — Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The Pacers finished with 13 steals in the game while the Nets, a long-limbed team that likes to create turnovers, managed just two.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Nov. 2022
• Elfman turned loose-limbed for the length of the number to go full-on sinister-Cab-Calloway.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
• Here’s a ranking of every song on Lambert’s most loose-limbed album to date: 15.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2022
• The songwriters were brought out in rounds, with a chart-topping artist joining them for each turn throughout the loose-limbed evening.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2018
• Loose-limbed and quick-witted, Brooks once sold a hundred and twelve bottles of Advanage in a day.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Clements is more loose-limbed and funny as Roland, while Benson’s Roland is reserved and thoughtful.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2021
• Each woman is nearly six feet tall, thick-limbed, cast larger than life.
  — Drea Brown Zócalo Public Square, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
• In that role, Goggins is intense and self-absorbed but also loose-limbed.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2020
• There’s a happy, loose-limbed, neighborly vibe in the room as night falls outside her window.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• Her father, long-limbed and quick-witted like his daughter, smiled, putting his arm around the girl’s narrow shoulders.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• Working against a big, long-limbed secondary, Pittman Jr. caught roughly a third of Ryan’s passes in 11-on-11, winning most of his matchups over the middle.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 Aug. 2022
• That certainly applies to her fighting style, a kind of stiff-limbed rapid zombie dance that leaves nothing in its wake.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2023
• That loose-limbed quality is what makes The High Sierra so appealing.
  — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022
• The show features a mix of species—the boss is a thin-limbed human; Pim and Charlie are lavender and yellow blobs—as well as animation styles.
  — Wired, 8 Aug. 2022
• Manatees, green sea turtles, herons and many-limbed mangroves are just a few of the Florida Keys’ most iconic species.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
• The train crash delivers a multi-limbed — not to mention man-eating — alien onto Lillian.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• In light of the film’s milestone, Vulture called up Shalhoub to talk about his memories of playing a multi-limbed evil scientist.
  — Iana Murray, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• The slender-limbed, long-tailed primate, described today in Nature, was about the size of today’s pygmy mouse lemur and would have weighed between 20 and 30 grams, the researchers estimate.
  — Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 5 June 2013
• Saguaro National Park, whose two parcels sit on either side of Tucson, is home to almost 2 million of the tall, multi-limbed cactuses for which it is named.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• Nerd Louisville, a loose-limbed collection of multi-purpose nerds, celebrates that culture and also uses it as launch pad to do some good.
  — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2017
• The centersaurus – tall and long-limbed – roamed the land for a century, dominating basketball games with size and power.
  — USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021
• Frost kicks and spins, wiggles his legs and pops his shoulders almost identically to Jackson; even his walk, a loose-limbed half swagger, brings to mind endless tour footage.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
• Its three-spoke steering wheel jostles with non-stop feedback and the chassis feels up on its toes, loose-limbed yet unerringly accurate.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2021
• And lanky, long-limbed Waldo sometimes bays like a hound, especially when treeing squirrels.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014
• Oh, and a demonic former doctor played by Udo Kier fathers a child who emerges from the womb a monstrously big and long-limbed baby, also played by Udo Kier.
  — Elizabeth Alsop, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
• Floppy-limbed and sweet-tempered Cruz (Tommy Rivera-Vega) is a banana farmer who longs to earn a degree in agricultural science.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024