limb
Example Sentences
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He’d apparently found a new stick, a fallen tree limb that splintered into a hundred tiny daggers.
From Literature
“I’m lucky to be alive, but also to have the limb,” Woods said months after the crash.
He said quick treatment was essential to increase the chances of survival and to avoid life-changing disabilities, such as loss of limbs, blindness and brain injury.
From BBC
You are close to its trunk, experiencing its lofty height and its many branches spreading out like gesturing limbs of an animate creature.
Most of the men I know would cut off a limb to play 18 holes at Augusta National.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
