How to Use limp in a Sentence

limp

1 of 3 verb

• The damaged ship limped back to port.
• The injured player limped off the court.
• The dog was limping slightly.
• The company has somehow managed to limp along despite the bad economy.
• Fabbri limped to the bench and down the tunnel to the locker room.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2023
• The young girl on the sidewalk was limp by the time she was lifted and placed in a car.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2023
• Kelce then limped off the field, slamming his helmet to the ground in anger.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
• Some of it makes my strands so limp that my hair ties will fall off.
  — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2023
• Rapinoe limped onto the field at the end of the game wearing a boot on her right foot.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Kelce limped off the field and was sent to the locker room for x-rays as his team finished the first half.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
• Rodgers then got on a cart to go to the locker room, hopped off near the tunnel and limped inside.
  — Dennis Waszak Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Rodgers then got on a cart to go to the locker room, hopped off near the tunnel, and limped inside.
  — Dennis Waszak Jr., BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Powell was helped off the field and limping during the Texas A&M game last week.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2023
• Here’s a shampoo that works hard to add volume to limp, flat hair.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• With 2:11 left, Byrd limped off with what was described as turf toe.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2024
• The murder case has limped along, unresolved, for more than a decade.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• Jokic limped back up the court afterward and stopped to tighten the laces on his right shoe.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
• After trying to limp through it, Malone had to take a brief pause.
  — Vulture, 20 Oct. 2022
• There was some concern when Fox came up limping late in the first quarter.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 27 Feb. 2024
• Footage from the railyard around the time of the murder showed an unknown man limping around.
  — Amanda Karrh, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• From an injury standpoint, the Angels are limping to the break.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Perhaps 1,000 sailors would die, and the carrier would limp back to port for repairs.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
• Tech stocks continued to limp through the first week of January.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Most were silently prostrate on their backs, their paws limp in the air, passed out in the nearly 100-degree heat.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• Overall, Wall Street limped to the finish line of its third losing week in a row on Friday.
  — al, 19 Aug. 2023
• At one point, Watts’ character rolls her ankle, forcing her to limp the rest of the way.
  — cleveland, 25 Feb. 2022
• Volodymyr, limping along on crutches, had to be lifted into the train car.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Chase was running a route with 0:20 to go in the first half and while running in stride, appeared to suffer the injury that forced him to limp off the field.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2022
• Monk limped off the floor and headed straight to the locker room late in the first half.
  — Jason Anderson january 25, Sacbee.com, 25 Jan. 2026
• The playoffs will also feature more teams limping to the finish line.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026

limp

2 of 3 noun

• We noticed that the dog was walking with a slight limp.
• The virus left her walking with a limp for the rest of her life.
  — Valeria Luiselli, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• The agents say the suspect speaks with a deep voice and walks with a limp.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2020
• No, a limp to the sideline to visit the trainer and watch the punter take over on the field.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2020
• His pitch count of plays, and gut-wrenching signs of a limp, were enough to show it.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• The two-time All-Star walked into the locker room with a slight limp.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2021
• Flax walked off with a limp and returned in the second half.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2022
• Stern alleged the shot left him with severe pain, a large bruise and a limp.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• The robber also walks with a limp in his right leg and speaks with a deep voice.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020
• Darius Leonard came up with a limp on one play in the second half.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2020
• Saute green onions in hot oil in large soup pot until limp.
  — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• The man also walked with a limp and was last seen wearing a dirty white shirt and jeans.
  — Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2020
• The injury left him with a limp and a dependence on a crutch in one hand.
  — Aarefa Johari, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
• Right guard Teven Jenkins left the locker room with a clear limp.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Barnes walks with a slight limp due to an ankle injury.
  — Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2022
• But as the years passed, old age came along and replaced Jaspie’s brisk but waddling walk with a limp.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2020
• Bosa watched team drills from the sideline and was walking without a limp.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2020
• Still, Michelle said, the buck had no limp, and no obvious signs of injury.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 10 Dec. 2020
• An older woman with a limp who knew Smalls from the JFK8 warehouse rushed up to talk.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• As a kid growing up in the wake of the war, I was always moved by the sight of older men marching with a limp.
  — Lonnie G. Bunch Iii, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020
• Woods walked with a noticeable limp throughout the round.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2022
• My stepmother knew a boy across the street who was in a wheelchair and a girl at school who walked with a limp.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• The bear could be seen on video ambling with a visible limp.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 1 June 2023
• Keanu will fall from three-story buildings, land on his head, and get up with a limp.
  — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• With a smile on his face and without a limp in his step, Woods took a spot on the left side of the range and quickly went through a warmup.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2022
• Phomachanh walked off under his own power, but with a limp.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• Both men were heavyset, with tired eyes; Smokes, who had knee and hip problems, walked with a limp.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• Jimenez walked to and from the witness box with an obvious limp, slowly lowering himself in to the chair.
  — Sara MacHi, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
• And yet, as 2025 limps toward its end, there are reasons to be hopeful.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
• Vonn walked with a limp, which contorted her body in a way that put stress on other areas, like her hips and ribs.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 27 Oct. 2025

limp

3 of 3 adjective

• He gave me a very limp handshake.
• This plant isn't doing well—look how limp the leaves are.
• I suddenly went limp and collapsed on the floor.
• He was limp with fatigue.
• Her hair hung limp around her shoulders.
• And to be fair, there’s a bit more to the Bass plan than a few limp sound bites.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• Thanks to the restoration process, none of the trim wobbles or creaks, and no levers sit limp.
  — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
• But even as the steaming pieces of cod cooled, the crust never went limp.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
• When Floyd went limp, Kueng and Lane checked Floyd for a pulse but could not find one.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
• Bystanders can be heard on the video screaming in shock as the coach's body goes limp.
  — Michael Murney, Chron, 5 May 2023
• When Floyd went limp, both Kueng and Lane checked Floyd for a pulse but could not find one.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• Her breath was faint, her body was limp, and her eyes were rolled into the back of her head.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
• The meat was dry and stringy, the bun soggy from all that sauce and the fries were limp and unsalted.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2022
• Leaving the greens attached can cause the carrots to go limp.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
• As the corporal tried to help him out and give him water, the man went limp.
  — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
• The phone remained limp in my palm for hours, teasing me with new routes to nowhere.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• The snake is already limp when the gator uses a wrestling-like move to flip and thrash it against a small piece of grass.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
• Footage of his limp body had somehow made it to Twitter.
  — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 30 June 2022
• The three men then appear to drag at least two limp people onto the truck bed, the video shows.
  — Josh Campbell, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
• The two sides kept pushing the route line back and forth between them like a limp noodle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• This mousse doesn’t leave a trace in your hair, but helps limp hair get an extra oomph.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 16 Dec. 2022
• Most spears will turn a bit limp and lame if they're put into fridge.
  — Jessica Hanners, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
• Not everybody who walks with a limp needs to be Richard III.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2022
• Tomato stalks broke in two, my mother’s peppers dangled like limp green earrings from the stem.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• The outer leaves should be tightly packed and crisp, not limp or dry.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2026
• If the yellowing leaves are limp or mushy, or the soil is smelly, overwatering is the likely culprit.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2026
• Harry survived the attack, but grew up with a limp and lasting emotional scars.
  — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• Warsaw said her only health goal is to walk without a limp one day.
  — Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
• Video captured it all, down to the motorist going limp and the vehicle crashing down the street.
  — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
• Manchester City have looked imperious in some moments but limp at others.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026