Example sentences for: limp

How can you use “limp” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • -- Andrew Whiten of the Scottish Primate Research Group is either mustering a rather limp defense of Tom DeLay or reporting surprising findings about chimpanzee life.

  • An interesting mix of genres (vampire and Western) winds up as a hokey mess: "[T]his gummy mix of fake-Catholic mumbo jumbo and teeth-in-neck horror goes limp" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). "[T]he unintended campiness of Vampires makes Night of the Living Dead look like an episode of Nightline " (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). But Gene Siskel praises the film, calling it "surprisingly entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ). (Watch the trailer.)

  • Asked whether the proposed establishment of a Near Earth Object Task Force wasn't rather a limp response to such a cataclysmic threat, a spokesman for the Science Ministry said defensively, "It's not as if there are asteroids hovering above the earth."

  • They included the sparsely coifed ballard , the squinting, weak-eyed blincard (who could also be one who deliberately ignored reality), the hobbling mendicant limpard or clochard (from French clocher to limp), the stammering mafflard , and the scallards and scabbards who suffered from some skin disease.

  • But the characters in The Muse are dull-witted materialists, and limp encounter follows limp encounter until the movie seems populated by pod people.


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