How to Use limber up in a Sentence

limber up

verb
  • The other day, a squad of dancers stretched and limbered up in the halls as, outside, the lions stayed still.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • For Gen Z, lacing up their sneakers and limbering up may be more popular than shopping at luxury stores.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In a rehearsal studio in the Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, Kurtis Blow was limbering up and getting loose.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • After changing into his stage costume, V brushes his teeth and catches RM doing elaborate frog-pose stretches to limber up for the high-energy performance.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Next to me line cooks, sous-chefs, and other assorted restaurant workers clad in athleisure are limbering up in the middle of a narrow street in downtown Manhattan, the skyscrapers casting us into shadow in the sunny weather.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025

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