limps

present tense third-person singular of limp

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of limps When there is much spectacle, substance limps behind, and that must be the judgement of what was achieved between India and China at Tianjin. Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025 Nashville limps into the playoffs having just lost one of its top players to injury/retirement in Michelle Esquivel, while California netted a premier-level player in Martin Emmrich at the trade deadline, who seems to have energized the Black Bears heading into the playoffs. Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for limps
Verb
  • Gakpo is deeper, and Wirtz pushes forward as the central member of Liverpool’s forward line, while Ekitike shuffles across as the left of the trio.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Because global air travel shuffles millions of people around the world daily, an outbreak of a very contagious disease anywhere can become a threat everywhere.
    Amy E. Stambach, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Things do get more interesting when Mia stumbles upon an improbable house in the middle of the woods, occupied by a witchy old lady (Robin Bartlett).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The film follows a finance guy named Alex (Arnett), who after splitting from his wife Tess (Laura Dern), stumbles into an unlikely hobby as a standup comic.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The 20-second clip, apparently captured by a doorbell camera, shows the woman screaming for help as a man drags her away from near the front door of a residence.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • As the federal government shut-down drags on, so does the misery for passengers flying in to or out of Charlotte’s airport — flight delays here are approaching 2,000 since last week.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the video, an elderly man — played by Hiep Tran Nghia — gingerly hobbles around a stone town before an apocalypse of sorts strikes.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tagovailoa struggles with accuracy For the Dolphins, Tagovailoa struggled in this game.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The pieces are set to perfectly align in London against a Jets defense that blitzes all the time but struggles to properly pressure.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Chalamet crawls out of the weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird chamber and chucks the helmet to the ground, displaying his now shaven head.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Arisu crawls onto a mound of rubble for momentary relief, and is met with an angry Banda.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For one day only, vehicle traffic halts on the 3,031-foot-long bridge and pedestrians stream across.
    Taryn Shorr-Mckee, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The best-cooling cases often reach that mark by spinning up their fans to annoyingly noisy levels, but the MasterFrame 600 halts that trend by having the third-quietest (or fourth-noisiest) sound pressure level of our test lot.
    Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Later in the episode, Kelce's cohost and brother, Jason Kelce, pokes fun at Lively's athleticism in a storyline that sees Bridget attend a soccer camp.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer for Season 6 of Solar Opposites, released today, pokes fun of the show’s imminent end.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Limps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limps. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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