Example sentences for: limp

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

  • After three days of music from acts such as Jewel, Alanis Morissette, Insane Clown Posse, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Limp Bizkit (the last band drawing the biggest response from the crowds), a few hundred of the estimated 200,000 spectators broke loose.

  • -- 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.)

  • The Globe , however, reports that it was Lawrence's fiancee, Shamicka Gibbs, who has been "sitting at [his] bedside clutching Martin's limp hand and praying to God to spare his troubled life."

  • I do know that I could see every plot turn dragging its limp, maggoty carcass across the desert from miles away.


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