Limber

//ˈlɪmbə(ɹ)//

"Limber" in a Sentence (18 examples)

A good yoga session can limber you up like nothing else.

Tom is still quite limber.

Tom is quite limber.

Limber pine is beginning to colonize areas of the Great Basin once dominated by bristlecones.

Researchers say warmer weather is permitting a similar kind of tree, the limber pine, to take over good growing places from the ancient bristlecone. They say the tree is being crowded out of mountainous areas where it grows.

The limber pine is the bristlecone’s distant relative and competitor. It also can live a long time – up to 2,000 years. It is found at lower elevations, where temperatures are warmer.

Tom is quite limber, isn't he?

Once more / a limber sapling from the soil I tore; / once more, persisting, I resolved in mind / with inmost search the causes to explore / and probe the mystery that lurked behind; / dark drops of blood once more come trickling from the rind.

Mary is quite limber, isn't she?

He's quite limber, isn't he?

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He's so limber that he can kiss his knee without bending it.

Not yet the bargeman that doth rowe / with long and limber oare

This is a very complicated case, Maude. A lot of ins, a lot of outs. Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limber.

Her stiff hams, that have not been bent to a civility for ten years past, are now limbered into courtesies three deep at every word

Go back to the Island and limber up with a few drafts.

An' when the smoke 'ad cleared away, before the limber wheels, / There lay the Driver's Brother with 'is 'ead between 'is 'eels.

As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit-hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.

we covered the rutted, rattling, dusty pot-holed roads of coastal Victoria, six big Walers in front, the cannon at the rear, and that unsprung cart they called a ‘limber’ in the middle.

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