Sample Sentences for
limber
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limber as in:  the gymnast stays limber

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    The violist limbered her wrists before the concert
    limbered = stretched and warmed up
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    My stiff limbs are well on the way to becoming as limber as they used to be.  (source)
    limber = flexible
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    He just lay there in the sunshine, all stretched out and limber as a rag.  (source)
    limber = flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)
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    So limber, in fact, he could touch behind his ankles, and raise a leg to his belly.  (source)
    limber = flexible (capable of moving, bending, and stretching easily)
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    A primed athlete among the unlimbered mass of men.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unlimbered means not and reverses the meaning of limbered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I pulled the husband figure out, his limbs bouncing around excitedly, a dancer limbering up.†  (source)
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    He limbers up with special stretching exercises.†  (source)
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    She limbered up her fingers, glanced at the clock, was satisfied she had taken enough minutes, started the metronome, took her seat and the lesson began.†  (source)
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    Then Jewel is enclosed by a glittering maze of hooves as by an illusion of wings; among them, beneath the up-reared chest, he moves with the flashing limberness of a snake.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    I saw Pooky come out of the crowd, unlimbering a .22 rifle from his shoulder.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unlimbering means not and reverses the meaning of limbering. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Her hands had begun to spring limberly open and then snatch closed again, catching air and squashing it.†  (source)
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    16 I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine, One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same, A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live, A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth, A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays o†  (source)
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    He rolled his eyes and went through a limber, satiric buck-and-wing.†  (source)
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