How to Use limber in a Sentence

limber

1 of 2 adjective

• And so, like a genie emerging from a lamp, up pops Tully (Mackenzie Davis): youthful, limber, funny, and free.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2018
• Doing so will flood the muscles with oxygen and nutrient-rich blood that is necessary for loose and limber muscle fibers.
  — Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• At the end of a day at Blackberry Mountain, your limbs will feel more limber, your mind expanded, your soul refreshed, your appetites—for great food, new friends, the Unknown—reawakened.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2019
• After countless cycles, my legs felt rubbery and my aging back, which that morning had been giving me warning twinges, was utterly limber.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Not surprisingly, given his experience and expertise, Djokovic came out loose, limber and locked in.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
• But Mr. de Blasio, perhaps sensing a rare opening against a limber political opponent, pounced.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2016
• Steeped in bebop, Ms. Jordan’s singing is still limber and adventurous, but also marked by discretion, that increasingly elusive virtue.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Caryn Ganz, Elysa Gardner, Giovanni Russonello and Simon Vozick-Levinson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Fallant, a multi-faceted actor and dancer in her own right, delivers a knockout series of dance numbers with her amazingly limber female ensemble of seven (with either Pinto or WolfKlain joining in on most of them).
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017
• And so, like a genie emerging from a lamp, up pops Tully (Mackenzie Davis): youthful, limber, funny, and free.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2018
• Doing so will flood the muscles with oxygen and nutrient-rich blood that is necessary for loose and limber muscle fibers.
  — Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• At the end of a day at Blackberry Mountain, your limbs will feel more limber, your mind expanded, your soul refreshed, your appetites—for great food, new friends, the Unknown—reawakened.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2019
• After countless cycles, my legs felt rubbery and my aging back, which that morning had been giving me warning twinges, was utterly limber.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Not surprisingly, given his experience and expertise, Djokovic came out loose, limber and locked in.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
• But Mr. de Blasio, perhaps sensing a rare opening against a limber political opponent, pounced.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2016
• Steeped in bebop, Ms. Jordan’s singing is still limber and adventurous, but also marked by discretion, that increasingly elusive virtue.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Caryn Ganz, Elysa Gardner, Giovanni Russonello and Simon Vozick-Levinson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Fallant, a multi-faceted actor and dancer in her own right, delivers a knockout series of dance numbers with her amazingly limber female ensemble of seven (with either Pinto or WolfKlain joining in on most of them).
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017
• And so, like a genie emerging from a lamp, up pops Tully (Mackenzie Davis): youthful, limber, funny, and free.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2018
• Doing so will flood the muscles with oxygen and nutrient-rich blood that is necessary for loose and limber muscle fibers.
  — Philly.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• At the end of a day at Blackberry Mountain, your limbs will feel more limber, your mind expanded, your soul refreshed, your appetites—for great food, new friends, the Unknown—reawakened.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2019
• After countless cycles, my legs felt rubbery and my aging back, which that morning had been giving me warning twinges, was utterly limber.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Not surprisingly, given his experience and expertise, Djokovic came out loose, limber and locked in.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
• But Mr. de Blasio, perhaps sensing a rare opening against a limber political opponent, pounced.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2016
• Steeped in bebop, Ms. Jordan’s singing is still limber and adventurous, but also marked by discretion, that increasingly elusive virtue.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Caryn Ganz, Elysa Gardner, Giovanni Russonello and Simon Vozick-Levinson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Fallant, a multi-faceted actor and dancer in her own right, delivers a knockout series of dance numbers with her amazingly limber female ensemble of seven (with either Pinto or WolfKlain joining in on most of them).
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017

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limber

2 of 2 verb

• Kershaw, limbering in the bullpen in the top of the second, heard a sudden rush of air from the crowd.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Stretching is a good idea, too, to limber up for the chore at hand and to keep from muscle pulls.
  — Cincinnati.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Stroeer has used the platform to keep both her body and mind limber in between expeditions for the past two years.
  — Outside Online, 11 May 2020
• Just as people do crosswords or Sudoku to keep their brains limber, cats play to stay on top of their feline game.
  — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
• So limber up your cringe muscles, because with Chad, there's no gain without pain.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 June 2021
• After a work session in the morning and a lunch of quesadillas, cheeseburgers and push-up pops on the club’s patio, the boys limbered up for golf lessons.
  — Paul Rogers, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• Posie’s scooping case rides at around 10 degrees Farenheit, allowing traces of heat to limber up the ice cream enough to form rounded scoops.
  — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• Recovery is key, as is his pre-care routine, which ensures his body is loose and limber to battle the best defensive backs in the league.
  — Jon Gugala, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
• This person needs to find a way to still do their job while accommodating the fact that one of their shoulders may not be as strong or limber as the other.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2021
• What Gimlin's camera sees is a strange, large, ape-like figure limbering on its hind legs across a clearing.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2018
• And not just in the weather department to limber up his surgically fused back.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 19 July 2019
• Thompson had been limbering up on-deck before Royals manager Ned Yost called Smith out of the bullpen.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 28 Apr. 2018
• The Grammy nominee keeps his fingers, hands and wrists limber and strong with a resistance band routine.
  — WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
• Beyond the treatment room on this Wednesday, midway through the 2018 San Antonio rodeo, cowboys stretched and limbered muscles across a floor strewn with rigging, straps and gear.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2018
• Steve Lukather limbers up his fingers with a bulky acoustic 12-string, serenading me with Byrds and Led Zeppelin classics.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Freedia began by leading the carpenters and painters in a few stretches to limber up before putting their backfields in motion.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 25 May 2017
• The mid-sized banks to which small firms tend to turn for money, and which have benefited from deregulation, show no signs of limbering up for a big burst of borrowing.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• But unlike real life, Jared, Van and Ali have moved in next door to a veiled and surprisingly limber witch who puts a possession spell on anyone who touches the wood sticks piled by her front porch.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2021
• The video ends with Lopez limbering up for her big day and finally taking the stage in a glittering bikini for her showstopping performance.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2019
• Recently, in a waiting room before practice, the North Koreans and their coach rolled their gloves into a ball and played an impromptu game of soccer to get their bodies limber.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• No matter your workout routine of choice, these stretches will help keep the muscles limber, loose, and ready to do their job—which will better protect your knees from taking on too much impact and becoming strained.
  — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 16 Sep. 2020
• Accompanied by the family dog — who really wants to get in on the action — Phelps shows his signature pre-race move, an arm extension and cross-body slap that limbers him up and clears his mind for the water.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 24 Jan. 2018
• Dansby was nearing the end of his career when Vigil was a Bengals rookie, and used to stimulate his muscles electrically with a machine rather than lift weights to keep himself limber.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
• The Bizet selections made this clear enough, allowing conductor and orchestra a chance to limber up through some of the composer’s most aggressively lovely short works.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• To limber your sensibility, stalk the aesthetic everywhere: cracks in a sidewalk, people’s ways of walking.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• The song thrives with alluring minimalism, as a circular guitar riff, crisp drums, and limber bassline provide a portal into the heady wilderness of Adrianne Lenker’s poetry.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 June 2022
• His English was remarkably elastic, freewheeling between rote grammar and limbered-up slang.
  — Daniel Riley, GQ, 1 May 2018
• After a few Astros casually limbered up, Los Angeles held a full, relaxed workout.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• Biden’s is to limber up and actually compete, upgrade infrastructure and invest big in research and development.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Ideologically limber and perpetually on the make, the three-term Michigan governor also sought the national stage during a period when the GOP was tearing itself apart.
  — Kevin Mahnken, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2021

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