limping

Example Sentences

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Limping up and down the field, he still managed 361 yards and three passing touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Limping into the playoffs is a meager consolation prize compared to heady thoughts entering the season but that’s where things stand.

From Washington Times • Mar. 26, 2018

The German secret police, the Gestapo, made the capture of what it called the "Limping Lady" a priority but it never caught up with her.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2016

Virginia Hall, a wellborn, multilingual Marylander who became known to the Nazis as the Limping Lady because of her artificial leg, helped French Resistance fighters wage guerrilla warfare against the occupying Germans.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2015

Limping from his wounds, Arnold could not hold a field command.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen